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CREATIVE MIND: Power of Thought, Universal Mind & Secret Law of Creation — Ernest S. Holmes · SECRETS OF SUCCESS & WEALTH: Hidden Laws of Money, Power & Success

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  Speaker 1: CREATIVE MIND By Ernest S. Holmes INTRODUCTION The hand of
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  Speaker 1: eternal progress is brushing the cobwebs from the corridors of
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  Speaker 1: time and is again revealing to the human race the
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  Speaker 1: mysteries of being. As there is nothing new under the sun,
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  Speaker 1: the searchlight of truth is bringing to light only what
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  Speaker 1: has been known to the few in all generations. The
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  Speaker 1: time has now come when the few must become the many.
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  Speaker 1: The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must
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  Speaker 1: know the truth, so that man may understand the great
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  Speaker 1: laws that govern his life. He must learn to control
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  Speaker 1: his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring
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  Speaker 1: happiness to his own soul. Ignorance must vanish and understanding
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  Speaker 1: must be ushered in. Man is no longer to be
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  Speaker 1: governed by anything outside himself. Creeds, doctrines, churches, institutions, organizations,
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  Speaker 1: governments are all being changed to give place to the
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  Speaker 1: realization of the individual. There is a power in and
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  Speaker 1: through all that is working this great transformation. All that
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  Speaker 1: will not measure up to the standard must fall by
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  Speaker 1: its own weight, all that is in line with the
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  Speaker 1: truth must still prosper. The time is at hand, we
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  Speaker 1: are in the greatest age of all history, we are
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  Speaker 1: in the age of the unifying of all people and
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  Speaker 1: all things into the ever-present one. The temple not made
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  Speaker 1: with hands is now being silently builded by the emancipated
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  Speaker 1: souls of this planet. This little book is an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to explain what each soul must discover for himself, that
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  Speaker 1: he stands in the midst of an eternal creative power
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  Speaker 1: which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back
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  Speaker 1: to him glorified all that he thinks. If it awakens
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  Speaker 1: within the consciousness of one single individual the realization that
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  Speaker 1: the mind of the universe, which is the only mind
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  Speaker 1: that there is, is his own mind, that the creative
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  Speaker 1: power of this mind is his also. That the manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of this mind is his own individuality, that the love
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  Speaker 1: and power and peace of this mind is within himself,
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  Speaker 1: it will not be written in vain. May it then
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  Speaker 1: do much in simplifying and bringing to light some of
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  Speaker 1: the deeper mysteries and meanings of life. Ernest S. Holmes,
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  Speaker 1: October 1, 1918 Part 1 In the Beginning Introductory In
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, God. Clear and expressive are these words. In
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, God only. No manifest universe. No system of planets.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing of form or life, of brute or man. God
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  Speaker 1: was the spirit of all that was to be, but
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  Speaker 1: he had not yet moved upon the waters. Then this
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  Speaker 1: all being moved, or began to create. Where did spirit move,
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  Speaker 1: upon what did it move to create, where did it
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  Speaker 1: get a pattern, what means or power did it employ?
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  Speaker 1: Through what agencies did it work? In short, What is
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  Speaker 1: the world, ourselves included, made out of, and how did
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  Speaker 1: we and all else come into being? These questions correctly
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  Speaker 1: answered would solve the problem of being and set men free.
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  Speaker 1: Let us consider. The spirit was all, there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: else but itself. All-inclusive, everywhere, infinite. This all-spirit could not
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  Speaker 1: have had the impulse to move unless it were self-conscious,
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  Speaker 1: therefore the spirit is the power that knows itself. it
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  Speaker 1: is accordingly all-knowing as well as all-present. Being one, undivided,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it knows, it knows all over instantly. We find
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  Speaker 1: then that the spirit operates through self-knowing. It moves, and
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  Speaker 1: that inner movement must be one of infinite power, moving
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  Speaker 1: upon itself since it is all and with a definite purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit, then, moves upon itself, and makes out of
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  Speaker 1: itself all that is made. In other words, what we
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  Speaker 1: see comes from what we do not see, through some
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  Speaker 1: inner intelligence at work, which knows there is no power
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  Speaker 1: but itself. The things that are seen are not made
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  Speaker 1: of the things that do appear. The only possible operation
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  Speaker 1: of intelligence is thought, or the word. So all things
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  Speaker 1: were made by the word, and without the word was
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  Speaker 1: not anything made that hath been made. How simple the
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  Speaker 1: process of creation when we understand it. The spirit speaks.
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  Speaker 1: And since there is nothing but the spirit and it
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  Speaker 1: is all power, it has only to speak and it
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  Speaker 1: is done, the word was with God and the word
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  Speaker 1: was God. From the word, then, comes forth all that appears.
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  Speaker 1: Each life, human or divine, each manifestation is a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of word coming into expression. The great fact to
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  Speaker 1: dwell upon is that spirit needs nothing to help it,
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  Speaker 1: it is self-conscious and has all power and all ability
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever it wishes to accomplish. It operates simply
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  Speaker 1: by speaking. It is hard to get a clear concept
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  Speaker 1: of this great ceaseless cause, this something from which all
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  Speaker 1: things come, at times we get into a maze of
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  Speaker 1: confusion when we attempt to realize what the spirit means.
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  Speaker 1: It is then that we should think of it as
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  Speaker 1: the great reason behind everything. Being all knowledge it must
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  Speaker 1: know itself, and must know everything it creates, so it
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  Speaker 1: knows us and it knows everyone. Since it is all
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  Speaker 1: presence we can contact anywhere and will never have to
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  Speaker 1: go to some particular spot to find it. As it
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  Speaker 1: is all-knowing and operates through the power of the word,
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  Speaker 1: it know everything we think. Just how it creates we
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  Speaker 1: cannot know and need not attempt to understand, for whatever
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  Speaker 1: this process of creation is, we find it is always
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  Speaker 1: an inner thought process. We should keep this in mind
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  Speaker 1: the spirit makes all things out of itself. Everything comes
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  Speaker 1: into being without effort, and when we exert ourselves we
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  Speaker 1: are not in accord with the creative spirit in the
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  Speaker 1: way in which it works. The impulse of the spirit
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  Speaker 1: to move must be caused by a desire to express
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  Speaker 1: what it feels itself to be beauty, form, color, life,
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  Speaker 1: love and power. All things else we find in the
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  Speaker 1: manifest universe are attributes of the spirit, and are caused
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  Speaker 1: to spring into being through the word, because the spirit
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  Speaker 1: wants to enjoy itself. We find, then, that the word,
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  Speaker 1: which is the inner activity of thought, comes first in
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  Speaker 1: the creative series, and all else comes from the effect
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  Speaker 1: of the Word operating upon a universal substance. If the
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  Speaker 1: Word precedes all else, then the Word is what we
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  Speaker 1: are looking for, and when we get it we shall
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  Speaker 1: have what the world has sought from time immemorial. We must,
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  Speaker 1: if we wish to prove the power of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: in our lives, look not to outside things or effects,
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  Speaker 1: but to the Word alone. The human eye sees and
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  Speaker 1: the human hand touches only that which is in effect.
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  Speaker 1: Unseen law controls everything. but this law also is an effect,
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  Speaker 1: law did not make itself, the law is not intelligence
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  Speaker 1: or causation. Before there can be a law there must
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  Speaker 1: be something that acts, and the law is the way
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  Speaker 1: it acts, it is intelligence. In the beginning was the word.
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  Speaker 1: This word or the activity of the spirit, is the
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  Speaker 1: cause of the law, and the law in its place
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  Speaker 1: is the cause of the thing, and the thing is
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  Speaker 1: always an effect, that is, it did not make itself,
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  Speaker 1: it is a result. The word always comes first in
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  Speaker 1: the creative series, the word was with God and the
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  Speaker 1: word was God, and the word still is God. When
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  Speaker 1: we realize that man is like God, and he could
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  Speaker 1: not be otherwise, being made out of God, we will
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  Speaker 1: realize that his word also has power. If there is
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  Speaker 1: but one mind then it follows that our word, our
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  Speaker 1: thought is the activity of that one mind in our consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: the power that holds the planets in their place is
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  Speaker 1: the same power that flows through man. We must place
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  Speaker 1: the word where it belongs, whether it is the word
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  Speaker 1: of God in the universe or the word of man
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  Speaker 1: in the individual, it is always first, before all else,
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning. The real sequence is this, cause, spirit, intelligence, God,
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  Speaker 1: the word, the activity of intelligence. The effect or the
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  Speaker 1: visible thing, whether it is a planet or a peanut.
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  Speaker 1: All are made out of the same thing. What we
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  Speaker 1: need to do is to learn how to use the
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  Speaker 1: word so that all will come to see that they
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  Speaker 1: are creative centers within themselves. A principle that can be proven.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that mind is, we have a principle that is absolute,
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  Speaker 1: it is exact, it is going to correspond to our
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it. The first great necessity is to believe this,
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  Speaker 1: without belief we can do nothing. This is the reason
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, it is done unto you even as you
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  Speaker 1: have believed. Always it is done unto people as they believe,
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  Speaker 1: and there is something that does it which never fails.
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  Speaker 1: We must believe that our word is formed upon and
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  Speaker 1: around by this creative mind, for instance, we wish to
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  Speaker 1: create activity in our business, we believe that our word
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  Speaker 1: is law about that thing, and there is something that
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  Speaker 1: takes our thought and executes it for us. If we
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  Speaker 1: have accepted the fact that all is mind and that
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  Speaker 1: the thought is the thing, we shall see at once
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  Speaker 1: that our word is the power behind the thing. and
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  Speaker 1: that it depends upon the word or thought that we
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  Speaker 1: are sending out. See Creative Mind and Success by the author.
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  Speaker 1: So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought
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  Speaker 1: makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds
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  Speaker 1: of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in
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  Speaker 1: their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds,
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  Speaker 1: he will get a thousand kinds of plants, it is
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  Speaker 1: the same in mind. The word going forth. Since this
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  Speaker 1: is true, everything depends upon our mental concepts. As a
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  Speaker 1: man thinketh in his heart, so is he, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: reiterates this statement telling us many times of the creative
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  Speaker 1: power of thought, Jesus taught nothing else, he said, the
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  Speaker 1: words which I speak unto you, they are spirit and
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  Speaker 1: they are life. The centurion coming to Jesus recognized the
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  Speaker 1: power of the word spoken by the latter. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I also am one in authority, but his authority was
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  Speaker 1: on the physical plane, and he saw that Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: authority on a spiritual plane, for he said, Speak the
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  Speaker 1: word only. The Bible also tells us that the word
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  Speaker 1: is not afar off but in our own mouth. It
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  Speaker 1: is neither here nor there, it is within every living soul.
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  Speaker 1: We must take the responsibility for our own lives. All
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  Speaker 1: must awake to the facts that they have absolute control
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  Speaker 1: over their lives, and that nothing can happen by chance.
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  Speaker 1: Then they will have a broader concept of God, a
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  Speaker 1: greater tolerance for their neighbor, and a greater realization of
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  Speaker 1: their own divine nature. What a relief from strenuous labor,
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  Speaker 1: no more struggle or strife. Be still and know that
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  Speaker 1: I am God, and beside me there is none other.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit being all there is, we cannot conceive of
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  Speaker 1: anything that can hinder its working. When the spirit has spoken,
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  Speaker 1: the word becomes law, for before the law is the word,
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  Speaker 1: it precedes all else. First is absolute intelligence, all power,
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  Speaker 1: all presence, all causation, then the movement upon itself through
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  Speaker 1: the power of the word, then the word becoming law,
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  Speaker 1: the law producing the thing and holding it in place.
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  Speaker 1: So long as the word exists the thing will exist,
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  Speaker 1: for since the word is all power there is nothing
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  Speaker 1: beside it. I am that I am, and beside me
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  Speaker 1: there is none other. This, I am, is spirit, God, all.
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  Speaker 1: There is no physical explanation for anything in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: all causation is spirit and all effects spiritual. We are
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  Speaker 1: not living in a physical world but in a spiritual
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  Speaker 1: world peopled with spiritual ideas. We are now living in spirit. God,
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  Speaker 1: or spirit, governs the universe through great mental laws that
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  Speaker 1: work out the divine will and purpose, always operating from intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: This intelligence is so vast, and the power so great
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  Speaker 1: that our human minds cannot even grasp it, all that
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  Speaker 1: we can hope to do is to learn something of
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  Speaker 1: the way in which it works, and by harmonizing ourselves
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  Speaker 1: with it, to so align ourselves with spirit that our
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  Speaker 1: lives may be controlled by the great harmony that obtains
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  Speaker 1: in all the higher laws of nature, but has been
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  Speaker 1: very imperfectly manifested in man. This brings us to the
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  Speaker 1: second point of consideration. Why, and what is man? We
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  Speaker 1: find in the physical universe that automatic laws govern everything,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, the tree cannot say, I will not, because
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  Speaker 1: of the law that holds it in place, it grows
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  Speaker 1: without any volition of its own. So it is with
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  Speaker 1: all nature, but when we come to man we find
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  Speaker 1: a different manifestation of the spirit, a being who can say,
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  Speaker 1: I choose. In all creation, man alone is an individual,
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  Speaker 1: man alone is free, and yet man alone wants, is sick, suffers,
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  Speaker 1: and is unhappy. Man marks the earth with ruin, why?
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  Speaker 1: Because he has not found his true nature. The very
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  Speaker 1: thing that should free him and eventually will do so
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  Speaker 1: now limits him. God could not make an individual without
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  Speaker 1: making him able to think and he cannot think without
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  Speaker 1: bringing upon himself the results of his thought, good or bad.
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  Speaker 1: This does not mean using two powers but using the
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  Speaker 1: one from two standpoints. Nothing in itself is either good
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  Speaker 1: or bad. all things exist in mind as a potentiality.
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  Speaker 1: Mind is eternally acting upon thought, continually producing its own
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  Speaker 1: images from mind, and casting them out into manifestation. Man
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  Speaker 1: must be the outcome, of the desire of the spirit
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  Speaker 1: to make something which expresses the same life that it feels.
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  Speaker 1: Man is made to be a companion of the infinite,
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  Speaker 1: but to arrive at this exalted plane of being, he
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  Speaker 1: must have his freedom, and be let alone to discover
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  Speaker 1: his own nature. to return love to his Creator only
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  Speaker 1: when he chooses to do so. At the doorway, then,
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  Speaker 1: of man's mind this wonderful God has to wait. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I stand at the door and knock, the opening must
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  Speaker 1: be on the part of the individual. Man lives in
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  Speaker 1: a mind that presses in upon him from all sides
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  Speaker 1: with infinite possibilities, with infinite creative power. The divine urge
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  Speaker 1: of infinite love crowds itself upon him and awaits his recognition.
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  Speaker 1: Being the image of this power, his thought also must
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  Speaker 1: be the word or cause of the life. At the
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  Speaker 1: center of his being is all the power that he
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  Speaker 1: will need on the path of his unfoldment, all the
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  Speaker 1: mind that man has is as much of this infinite
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  Speaker 1: mind as he allows to flow through him. We have
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  Speaker 1: often thought of God as far off, and of man
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  Speaker 1: as a being separate from the all good, now we
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  Speaker 1: are coming to see that God and man are one,
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  Speaker 1: and that that one is simply awaiting man's recognition, that
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  Speaker 1: he may spring into being and become to man all
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  Speaker 1: that he could wish or want. As the Father has
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  Speaker 1: inherent life in Himself, so hath He given to the
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  Speaker 1: Son to have life within Himself. It could not be otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: we are all in mind and mind is always creating
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  Speaker 1: for us as we think, and as we are thinking creatures,
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  Speaker 1: always thinking, our happiness depends upon our thought. Let us
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  Speaker 1: consider the law of our life. The law of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit creates through law. The law is always mind in action.
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  Speaker 1: Mind cannot act unless intelligence sets it in motion. In
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  Speaker 1: the great universal mind man is a center of intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: and every time he thinks he sets mind into action.
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  Speaker 1: What is the activity of this mind in relation to
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  Speaker 1: man's thought? It has to be one of mental correspondence,
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  Speaker 1: that is, mind has to reflect whatever thought it casts
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  Speaker 1: into it. Wonderful as universal mind is, it has no
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  Speaker 1: choice but to create whatever thought is given it, if
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  Speaker 1: it could contradict that thought, it would not be a unit,
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  Speaker 1: since this would be recognizing something outside itself. This is
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  Speaker 1: a point in truth which should not be overlooked. The
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  Speaker 1: one mind knows only its own ability to make whatever
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  Speaker 1: is given it, it sees no other power and never
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  Speaker 1: analyzes or dissects, it simply knows, and the reason why
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  Speaker 1: people do not understand this is that they have not
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  Speaker 1: realized what mind is. The ordinary individual thinks of mind
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  Speaker 1: only from the limitation of his own environment. The concept
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  Speaker 1: he has of mind is the concept of his own thinking,
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  Speaker 1: which is very limited. We are surrounded by an all-seeing,
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  Speaker 1: all-knowing mind, which is one and runs through all. The
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  Speaker 1: belief in the dual mind has destroyed practically all philosophies
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  Speaker 1: and religions of the ages, and will continue to do
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  Speaker 1: so until the world comes to see that there is
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  Speaker 1: but one. Whatever name is given it there is but one.
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  Speaker 1: It is this one that creates for us, whatever we believe.
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  Speaker 1: Our thought operative through this one produces all our affairs.
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  Speaker 1: We are all centers in this mind, centers of creative
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  Speaker 1: thought activity. There is nothing which appears in the manifest
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  Speaker 1: universe other than an objectified thought, whether it be a
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  Speaker 1: bump on your head, a growth on your foot or
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  Speaker 1: a planet. It could not be there were it not
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  Speaker 1: made out of mind, for mind is all there is
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  Speaker 1: to make anything out of. Whatever is made is made
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  Speaker 1: out of it. Nothing exists or can exist without a
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  Speaker 1: source from which it springs. We are not dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a negative as well as a positive power not two
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  Speaker 1: powers but one, a power that sees neither good nor evil,
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  Speaker 1: as we see it. It knows only that it is all,
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  Speaker 1: and since it is all, it creates whatever is given it.
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  Speaker 1: From our limited standpoint we often think of good, and evil,
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  Speaker 1: not realizing that, as yet, we do not know the
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  Speaker 1: one from the other. What we call good today, We
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  Speaker 1: may call evil tomorrow, and what we think to be
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  Speaker 1: evil today, we may tomorrow proclaim as the greatest good
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  Speaker 1: we have known. Not so with the great universal power
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  Speaker 1: of mind, it sees only itself, and its infinite ability
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  Speaker 1: to create. To the thinking person this will mean much.
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  Speaker 1: He will see that he is no longer living in
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  Speaker 1: a limited universe, a world of powers, but that he
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  Speaker 1: is immersed in an infinite creative medium which, because of
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  Speaker 1: its nature, has to create for him whatever he believes.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus understood this, and in a few simple words, laid
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  Speaker 1: down the law of life, it is done unto all
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  Speaker 1: people as they believe. This is a great thing to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind. It is done unto us, we do
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  Speaker 1: not have to do it, for it is done unto
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  Speaker 1: us of a power that knows itself to be all
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  Speaker 1: there is. Could we even believe that some material mountain
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  Speaker 1: would be moved, the power is there to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Without this belief there is no real impulse for the
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  Speaker 1: creative mind, and we do not get an affirmative answer.
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  Speaker 1: We must realize more clearly that this great power has
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  Speaker 1: to operate through us. Man's part. Creative mind cannot force
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  Speaker 1: itself upon us because we have the power of self-choice.
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  Speaker 1: It recognizes us when we recognize it. When we think
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  Speaker 1: that we are limited or have not been heard, it
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  Speaker 1: must take that thought and bring it into manifestation for us.
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  Speaker 1: When we look about us and see nature so beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: lavish and so limitless, when we realize that something, some power,
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  Speaker 1: is behind all, and sees to it that plenty obtains everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: so that in all things manifest there is more than
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  Speaker 1: could be used, and when on the other hand we
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  Speaker 1: see man so limited, sick, sad, and needy, we are
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  Speaker 1: disposed to ask this question. Is God good after all?
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  Speaker 1: Does He really care for the people of His creation?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I sick? Why am I poor? Little do
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  Speaker 1: we realize that the answer is in our own mouths,
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  Speaker 1: in the creative power of our own thought. The average
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  Speaker 1: person when told the truth will still seek some other way.
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  Speaker 1: God has already done for us in a mechanical way
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  Speaker 1: all that he can do, and having been given the ability,
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  Speaker 1: we will have to do for ourselves the rest. Yet
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  Speaker 1: the great power is always near, ready at any time
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  Speaker 1: to help, but we must use it according to its
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  Speaker 1: own nature in harmony with its laws. Man should learn
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  Speaker 1: that he himself is the center of this divine activity.
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  Speaker 1: Realizing this, he must seek more and more to utilize
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  Speaker 1: his own divine nature, and by so doing he will
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  Speaker 1: come more fully under the protection of the great laws
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  Speaker 1: that govern all life, manifest and unmanifest. Whatever man is,
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  Speaker 1: he must find that because he is made out of God,
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  Speaker 1: he must be of the same nature. This infinite one
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  Speaker 1: cannot know anything outside of itself, anything that would be
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  Speaker 1: a contradiction of its divine nature, man's ignorance of his
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  Speaker 1: real nature binds him with his own freedom, until he
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  Speaker 1: comes to see things as they really are, and not
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  Speaker 1: as they appear to be. In the infinity of mind,
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  Speaker 1: which is the principle of all metaphysics and of all life,
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing but mind, and that which mind does.
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  Speaker 1: That is all there is in the universe. That is
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  Speaker 1: all there ever was or ever will be. This mind
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  Speaker 1: is acted upon by our thought, and so our thought
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  Speaker 1: becomes the law of our lives. It is just as
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  Speaker 1: much a law in our individual lives as God's thought
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  Speaker 1: is in the larger life of the universe. For the
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  Speaker 1: sake of clearness, think of yourself as in this mind,
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  Speaker 1: think of yourself as a center in it. That is
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  Speaker 1: your principle. You think, and mind produces the thing. One
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  Speaker 1: of the big points to remember is that we do
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  Speaker 1: not have to create, all that we have to do
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  Speaker 1: is to think. Mind, the only mind that there is, creates.
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  Speaker 1: Few people seem to understand the nature of the law
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  Speaker 1: and so think that they have got to do something,
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  Speaker 1: even if it is only holding a thought, thinking or
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  Speaker 1: knowing is what does the thing. It will make it
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  Speaker 1: much easier for us when we realize that we do
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  Speaker 1: not have to make anything, just to know. That there
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  Speaker 1: is something back of the knowing which does the work
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  Speaker 1: for us. That person gets the best results who realizes
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  Speaker 1: that he can use this divine principle, he who can
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  Speaker 1: get the clearest concept of his idea, and who can
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  Speaker 1: rely on mind to do for him, keeping everything out
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  Speaker 1: of his thought that would contradict the supremacy of spirit
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  Speaker 1: or mind. By simply holding a thought we could not
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  Speaker 1: make anything but by knowing in mind what cannot we do.
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  Speaker 1: Bondage and Freedom Never get away from the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you are surrounded by such a power, it is the
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  Speaker 1: principle of demonstration. It knows every thought. As we send
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  Speaker 1: forth our thought into it, it does unto us. The
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  Speaker 1: person who is ignorant of this law must by that
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  Speaker 1: ignorance be bound by his thought, by his human beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: One who understands will begin to break these ties that
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  Speaker 1: bind him, one by one he will destroy every negative
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  Speaker 1: thought until at last he is able to think what
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  Speaker 1: he wants to think. And so he frees himself by
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  Speaker 1: the use of the same power that at one time
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  Speaker 1: bound him. We must destroy all thought that we would
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  Speaker 1: not see manifest and hold to that which we would see,
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  Speaker 1: until we receive the affirmative answer. Never struggle, mind makes
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  Speaker 1: things out of itself, there is no effort made. Don't
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  Speaker 1: think that there is so much to be overcome. Have
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  Speaker 1: only a calm sense of perfect peace as you realize
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  Speaker 1: that God is all, and that you are using the
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  Speaker 1: perfect law and that nothing can hinder it from working
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  Speaker 1: for you. Many people are learning to do this. and
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  Speaker 1: no one has yet failed to demonstrate who has been steadfast,
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  Speaker 1: using the law in a consistent and persistent trust. All
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  Speaker 1: that we have to do is to provide the right
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  Speaker 1: mental and spiritual attitude of mind and then believe that
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  Speaker 1: we already have, and the reward will be with us.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see it. The time will come when we
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  Speaker 1: will not have to demonstrate at all because we will
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  Speaker 1: be always living so near to the law that it
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  Speaker 1: will do all for us without much conscious thought on
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  Speaker 1: our part. So when you say, I am poor, sick
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  Speaker 1: or weak, I am not one with the creative mind,
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  Speaker 1: you are using that creative power to keep yourself away
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  Speaker 1: from the infinite, and just as soon as you declare
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  Speaker 1: that you are one with God, there is a rushing
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  Speaker 1: out to meet you, as the father rushed out to
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  Speaker 1: meet the prodigal son. The spirit seeketh, but as long
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  Speaker 1: as your mind thinks in the terms of conditions you
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  Speaker 1: cannot overcome. The difficulty comes from our inability to see
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  Speaker 1: our own divine nature, and its relation to the universe.
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  Speaker 1: Until we awake to the fact that we are one
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  Speaker 1: in nature with God, we will not find the way
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  Speaker 1: of life, until we realize that our own word has
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  Speaker 1: the power of life we will not see the way
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  Speaker 1: of life, and this brings us to the consideration of
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  Speaker 1: the use of the word in our lives. The Word
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  Speaker 1: The word was with God and the word was God.
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  Speaker 1: The word is nigh thee, even in thy own mouth
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  Speaker 1: that thou shouldst know it and do it. What does
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  Speaker 1: this mean? It clearly states that whatever power there is
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  Speaker 1: in the word, and it says it is all power,
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  Speaker 1: is also in our own mouths. There is no avoiding
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the Bible claims for man the same
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  Speaker 1: power in his own life and his own world that
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  Speaker 1: it claims for God. In the lives of the majority,
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  Speaker 1: men do not realize that the word is in their
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  Speaker 1: own mouths. What word? Little do we realize that this
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  Speaker 1: word which they are so earnestly seeking is every word
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  Speaker 1: they hear, think or speak. Do we who are endeavoring
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  Speaker 1: to realize the greater truths of life always govern our words?
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  Speaker 1: If any word has power, it follows that all words
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  Speaker 1: have power. It is not in the few moments of
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  Speaker 1: spiritual meditation that we demonstrate, but we bring out the
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  Speaker 1: possibilities of the hidden word when we are allowing our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts to run in any direction. Not in the short
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  Speaker 1: time spent in silence, but in the long hours stretching
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  Speaker 1: themselves into days, months, and years, are we always using
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  Speaker 1: the word. An hour a day spent in silent meditation
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  Speaker 1: will not save us from the confusion of life, the
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  Speaker 1: 51% of a man's thinking is what counts. It is
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  Speaker 1: easy when we are alone to brave the storms of life,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by our own exalted atmosphere we feel the strength
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  Speaker 1: of the infinite. We rise in spirit, we think we
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  Speaker 1: are experiencing the ultimate of truth, that all things are ours.
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  Speaker 1: These moments in a busy life are well spent, but
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  Speaker 1: must unavoidably be brief. But what of the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the day, what of the busy street, of the marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: and of all the daily contact with life? Do we
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  Speaker 1: then obtain? Do we keep on in the same even way?
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  Speaker 1: Or do we fall before the outer confusion of our surroundings?
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  Speaker 1: We are still creating the word and setting it afloat
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  Speaker 1: in the great ethers of life. Are these words creating
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  Speaker 1: for us? Yes. How necessary, then, to keep the independence
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  Speaker 1: of the solitude. how seldom we do this. God sent
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  Speaker 1: an angel to speak to me, a word he was
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  Speaker 1: fain I hear, and the angel brought the message and
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  Speaker 1: whispered it in my ear. God knew I needed the
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  Speaker 1: word he sent, I had lost the zest of fight,
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  Speaker 1: and the right was all but beaten, the wrong it
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  Speaker 1: was all but right. Simple the word that he sent me,
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  Speaker 1: but it soothed the spirit raw, with the pain of
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  Speaker 1: too much striving, t'was, love fulfills the law. Few people
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  Speaker 1: indeed in the day in which we live are well poised.
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  Speaker 1: Where do we find the man who can live above
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  Speaker 1: his surroundings, who in his own thought can dominate all conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and in the midst of the crowd keep his own
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  Speaker 1: even way, and his own counsel? When we do meet
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  Speaker 1: with such a person we will know him, for we
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  Speaker 1: shall find on his face the image of perfect peace.
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  Speaker 1: We shall detect in his bearing the ease and independence
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  Speaker 1: that comes only to the man who has found himself
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  Speaker 1: and who is centered not in the outer but in
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  Speaker 1: the inner world. Such a character as this has the
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  Speaker 1: power to attract to himself all of the best in
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  Speaker 1: the world, he is a center toward which all else
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  Speaker 1: must gravitate. The atmosphere which he creates and with which
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  Speaker 1: he surrounds himself is one of absolute calm and peace.
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  Speaker 1: The world at once sees in this man a master,
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  Speaker 1: and gladly sits at his feet. And yet this man
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  Speaker 1: who has risen above the thought of the world cares
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  Speaker 1: not that other people should sit at his feet. He
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  Speaker 1: knows that what he has done all may do, and
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  Speaker 1: he well knows that all the teaching in the world
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  Speaker 1: will not produce another such as he. He knows that
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  Speaker 1: it is not from the teaching but from the being
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  Speaker 1: that true greatness springs. So this man does not go
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  Speaker 1: around teaching or preaching, he simply is. The man who
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  Speaker 1: has arrived. The man who has arrived will realize that
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  Speaker 1: he has done so in the midst of an outer confusion,
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  Speaker 1: he will be the one who has gone into the
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  Speaker 1: silence for strength, and has come out into the world
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  Speaker 1: equipped with power from on high, but that light which
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  Speaker 1: he has received must be kept burning. Not alone in
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  Speaker 1: the silence but in the busy throng must all of
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  Speaker 1: us find a way of life. Our every thought creates.
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  Speaker 1: For the majority of us these thoughts come in everyday affairs,
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  Speaker 1: some of which are very trivial, but these too will
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  Speaker 1: be demonstrated. We have missed the whole point, unless we
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  Speaker 1: have learned so to control our thought that time and
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  Speaker 1: place make no difference. The power we have within us.
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  Speaker 1: We have within us a power that is greater than
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  Speaker 1: anything that we shall ever contact in the outer, a
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  Speaker 1: power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and
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  Speaker 1: set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous,
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  Speaker 1: in a new light, and in a new life. Mind,
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  Speaker 1: all mind is right here. It is God's mind, God's
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  Speaker 1: creative power, God's creative life. We have as much of
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  Speaker 1: this power to use in our daily life as we
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  Speaker 1: can believe in and embody. The storehouse of nature is
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  Speaker 1: filled with infinite good awaiting the touch of our awakened
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  Speaker 1: thought to spring forth into manifestation in our life, but
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  Speaker 1: the awakening must be on our part and not on
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  Speaker 1: the side of life. We static. At the gateway of
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  Speaker 1: limitless opportunity in the eternal and changeless now. Now is
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  Speaker 1: the day in which to begin the new life that
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  Speaker 1: is to lift us up to the greater expression of
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  Speaker 1: all that is wonderful. The word that we speak is
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  Speaker 1: the law of our life and nothing hinders but ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We have through ignorance of our real nature misused the
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  Speaker 1: power of our word, and behold what it has brought
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  Speaker 1: upon us, the very thing that we feared. But now
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  Speaker 1: it shall produce a new thing, a new heaven and
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  Speaker 1: a new earth. Individual Ideas We find that in the
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  Speaker 1: universe every separate idea has a word, a mental concept
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  Speaker 1: behind it, and as long as that word remains the
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  Speaker 1: thing is held in place in the visible world, when
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  Speaker 1: the concept is withdrawn the idea in the visible melts away, disappears.
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  Speaker 1: It ceases to vibrate to the word, which is the
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  Speaker 1: law behind it, for when the word is withdrawn the
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  Speaker 1: condensation of the ether that forms the word melts again
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  Speaker 1: into the formless. There was a time when the world
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  Speaker 1: was without form, and from the word alone all things
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  Speaker 1: were made that are made. When our word says that
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  Speaker 1: there is no longer life in our bodies, the life
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  Speaker 1: principle withdraws and our bodies return to the substance from
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  Speaker 1: which they came. Here is the great mystery of life,
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  Speaker 1: that we are able to use this creative word for
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  Speaker 1: whatever purpose we may desire, and that word becomes the
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  Speaker 1: law unto the thing for which it was spoken. And
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  Speaker 1: so in our lives we might say that without our
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: word was not anything made that was made. For we
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  Speaker 1: are given the power to sit in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: our lives and direct all their activities. There is no
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: struggle and no strife necessary. all that we have to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: do is to know. We must awake and with the
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  Speaker 1: glorified consciousness of an emancipated soul use our God-given power.
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  Speaker 1: The reason for the universe. This universe is the reason,
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  Speaker 1: first of an infinite intelligence which speaks or thinks, and
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  Speaker 1: as this thought becomes active within itself, it creates from itself,
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  Speaker 1: at the power of its own word, the visible universe.
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  Speaker 1: We are living in a universal activity of mental law,
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  Speaker 1: we are surrounded by a mind which receives every impression
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  Speaker 1: of our thought and returns to us just what we think.
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  Speaker 1: Every man, then, is living in a world made for
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  Speaker 1: him from the activity of his thought. It is a
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  Speaker 1: self-evident proposition that mind must create out of itself, and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this self being limitless, it follows that its creative power
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  Speaker 1: is without limit. MIND IN ACTION Everything that we see
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  Speaker 1: is the result of mind in action. We all have
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  Speaker 1: a body and we have what is called a physical environment,
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  Speaker 1: we could have neither if it were not for mind.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The law implanted within us is, that we need nothing
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  Speaker 1: except ourselves and this all-wise creative mind to make anything,
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  Speaker 1: and that just so far as we depend upon any condition, past,
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  Speaker 1: present or future, or upon any individual, we are creating chaos,
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  Speaker 1: because we are dealing with conditions and not with causes.
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  Speaker 1: Every living soul is a law unto himself, but of
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  Speaker 1: this great truth few people are conscious. It seems difficult
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  Speaker 1: for the race, which feels itself to be so limited,
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  Speaker 1: to comprehend the fact that there is a power that
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  Speaker 1: makes things directly out of itself, by simply becoming the
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  Speaker 1: thing that it makes, and that it does this by self-knowing.
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  Speaker 1: But we will not demonstrate until we see at least
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  Speaker 1: some of this, the greatest truth about life. We should
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  Speaker 1: realize that we are dealing with the principle that is
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: scientifically correct. It will never fail us at any time
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: but is eternally present. We can approach the infinite mind
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  Speaker 1: with a depth of thought and understanding, knowing that it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: will respond, knowing that we are dealing with reality. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who saw this very dearly, laid down the whole law
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  Speaker 1: of life in a few simple words, it is done
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  Speaker 1: unto you as you believe. We do not have to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: do it, it is done unto us, it is done
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  Speaker 1: by a power that is all. Could we believe that
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  Speaker 1: a material mountain would be moved, it would be done
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  Speaker 1: unto us. But unless we do believe there is no
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  Speaker 1: impulse for the creative power and we do not receive.
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  Speaker 1: Life externalizes at the level of our thought. Action and reaction.
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  Speaker 1: There is something that casts back at us every thought
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  Speaker 1: that we think. Vengeance is mine, I will repay, said
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, is a statement of eternal truth and correspondences
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  Speaker 1: against which nothing can stand. and whatever man sets in
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: motion in mind will be returned to him, even as
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: he has conceived within himself and brought forth into manifestation.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: If we wish to transcend old thoughts we must rise
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  Speaker 1: above them and think higher things, we are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the law of cause and effect and it is absolute.
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  Speaker 1: It receives the slightest as well as the greatest thought
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  Speaker 1: and at once begins to act upon it. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: even when we know this we are surprised at the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: rapidity with which it works. If we have been misusing
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: this law we need not fail, all that we have
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  Speaker 1: to do is to turn from the old way and
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  Speaker 1: begin in the new. We will soon work up out
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  Speaker 1: of the old law into the new which is being
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  Speaker 1: established for us. When we desire only the good the
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  Speaker 1: evil slips from us and returns no more. Arriving at
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  Speaker 1: a High Consciousness The best way to arrive at the
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  Speaker 1: highest consciousness is to have a great faith in the
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  Speaker 1: willingness and the ability of life to do all for us,
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  Speaker 1: by working through us. We must believe in the inherent
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  Speaker 1: goodness and all-powerfulness of the spirit of truth. And so
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: every path leads us back to the one point and
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: we must learn to realize the near presence, the great reality. There,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: through the door of our own thought, we enter into
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  Speaker 1: the universal consciousness, into a complete realization of life and truth,
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  Speaker 1: of love and beauty, and as we sit in the
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  Speaker 1: silence of our own souls and listen, it will be
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing that we will ever do. In that
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  Speaker 1: completeness we are lost and yet we are found. This
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  Speaker 1: is what is meant that a man must lose his
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  Speaker 1: life in order to find it. We are lost to
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  Speaker 1: the human and found in the divine. We realize that
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  Speaker 1: we are one with cause. Outer Suggestions Nearly all people
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  Speaker 1: are controlled by outer suggestions and not by inner realizations.
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  Speaker 1: Ordinarily man thinks only what he sees others do and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: hears others say. We must all learn so to control
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  Speaker 1: the inner life that outside things do not make an
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: impression upon our mentalities. As we are thinking beings, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: cannot help thinking, we cannot avoid making things happen to us,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and what we need to do is so to control
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: our thought processes that our thinking will not depart from
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the realization of that which is perfect. Man is governed
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: by a mind which casts back to him every thought
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: he thinks, he cannot escape from this and need not try,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: it would be useless. The laws of mind are simple
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and easy to understand. The trouble with us has been
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: that we have laid down great obstructions and then have
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: tried to overcome them. Stop trying, stop struggling, begin to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: even though you do not see them, they are still there.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Did you ever see the law that causes a plant
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  Speaker 1: to grow? Of course you did not, and yet you
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  Speaker 1: believe in this hidden law of growth. Why do you believe?
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  Speaker 1: simply because every year, out of the seed time comes
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  Speaker 1: a harvest. Shall we not have as great faith in
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  Speaker 1: the higher laws of being? To those souls who have
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  Speaker 1: dared to believe has come as definite an answer as
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  Speaker 1: came to those who believed in receiving a harvest from
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  Speaker 1: the planted seed. This law is, and if we would
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  Speaker 1: see results we must use it, that is, we must
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  Speaker 1: provide the mental receptivity that will prepare us to accept
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  Speaker 1: the gift when the Spirit makes it. This receiving is
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  Speaker 1: a mental process, a process in which we lose all
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  Speaker 1: sense of limitation. If you wish to demonstrate prosperity, begin
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  Speaker 1: to think and talk about it, and to see it everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Do nothing that contradicts this thought either mentally or physically.
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  Speaker 1: The world is full of good, take it and forget
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  Speaker 1: all else. Rise above depression and be glad that you
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  Speaker 1: are saved from adversity, the human mind needs to be
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  Speaker 1: cleansed from the morbid thoughts that bind through its false beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: No living soul can demonstrate two things at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: if one contradicts the other. There is no way except
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  Speaker 1: to let go of all that you do not wish
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  Speaker 1: to come into your experience, and, in mind, take all
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  Speaker 1: that you do wish. See, hear, talk about, and read
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  Speaker 1: only what you wish, and never again let a negative
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  Speaker 1: thought come into your mind. God knows good only, and
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  Speaker 1: when we are in line with good He knows us,
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  Speaker 1: when we are out of harmony with good, we say,
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  Speaker 1: God has forgotten us. On the one hand we have
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  Speaker 1: an infinite intelligence which has brought us up to where
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  Speaker 1: we are today. And having done all that it can
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  Speaker 1: for us now lets us alone to discover our own nature.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand we have the infinite law which
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  Speaker 1: is an activity of God and we can use it
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  Speaker 1: for what we will, only with this provision, that, in
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  Speaker 1: so far as we use it for the good of all,
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  Speaker 1: are we protected. The law obtains through all nature that
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  Speaker 1: as a man sows, so must he reap. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Father has brought us to where we can understand life,
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  Speaker 1: and we must go as we choose. If we are
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  Speaker 1: in harmony with the great forward movement of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing that can hinder our advancement, if we
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  Speaker 1: oppose it, somewhere along our pathway it will crush us.
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  Speaker 1: As with individuals so with nations, in so far as
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  Speaker 1: they work with a right spirit they prosper, when they
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  Speaker 1: begin to fail in the use of this law they
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  Speaker 1: begin to fall. He who understands will take the position
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  Speaker 1: of one who wishes to work in union with the
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  Speaker 1: power of good. And to such an one will come
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  Speaker 1: all the power that he can conceive of and believe in,
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  Speaker 1: his word becomes an expression as the very word of God,
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  Speaker 1: and he must realize it to be all-powerful. So the
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  Speaker 1: one who is truly united with good will wish to
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  Speaker 1: express only the truth for all, and in doing so
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  Speaker 1: he is working along the lines of the unfoldment of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, and though he may seem to fail, from
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  Speaker 1: the ordinary standpoint, yet his success is assured. for he
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  Speaker 1: is at one with the only ultimate power before which,
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  Speaker 1: in time, all else must fall. The Use of the
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  Speaker 1: Greater Consciousness In practice the emancipated soul must always realize
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  Speaker 1: that he is in union with the Father, what the
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  Speaker 1: Father does, he can do in his own life, what
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  Speaker 1: God is, he can become. His word must be spoken
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  Speaker 1: with absolute authority, he must know, there should be no uncertainty.
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  Speaker 1: The Word is the only power, everything must come from it,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing can stand against it. It is the great
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  Speaker 1: weapon which He is to use against all evil and
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  Speaker 1: for all good. It is His shield against all adversity
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  Speaker 1: and His sure defense against all seeming limitation. The secret
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  Speaker 1: place of the Most High is in His own soul,
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  Speaker 1: where God dwells in eternal peace and infinite calm. Here
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  Speaker 1: He walks the waters of life undisturbed by the waves
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  Speaker 1: and the storms. Divine companionship is his for all eternity.
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  Speaker 1: Peace which transcends all human confusion comes, and he realizes
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  Speaker 1: that indeed he is honored of the Father. His word
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  Speaker 1: is flung out and will work and none can hinder it,
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  Speaker 1: the sense of sureness is complete. Heaven and earth may
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  Speaker 1: pass away, but the word goes on and on accomplishing
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  Speaker 1: that thing for which it was sent, and all power
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  Speaker 1: is given to it on earth and in heaven. If
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  Speaker 1: he speaks to the sick and they receive, it will
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  Speaker 1: heal them. If he says the word of prosperity it
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  Speaker 1: will manifest, and nothing can hinder it, the world will
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  Speaker 1: abound with good, and his cup run over with life.
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  Speaker 1: What more can we ask? What greater realization of life
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  Speaker 1: than to know that God is with us? From this
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  Speaker 1: great realization comes peace, a peace which the world little understands,
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  Speaker 1: and a calm which is as deep as the infinite
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  Speaker 1: sea of love in which he realizes himself to be immersed.
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  Speaker 1: Peace brings poise, and the union of these two gives
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  Speaker 1: birth to power. No person can hope to arrive while
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  Speaker 1: he believes in two powers, only as we rise to
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  Speaker 1: the realization of the one in and through all can
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  Speaker 1: we attain. When we speak the word there must be
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  Speaker 1: no confusion but only that calm reliance which knows that,
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  Speaker 1: beside me there is none other. Realize that spirit is
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  Speaker 1: all causation, and that all things are made out of it,
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  Speaker 1: by the operation of the word through it, and that
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  Speaker 1: you can speak the word that is one with the
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  Speaker 1: spirit and there will be no more confusion. As the
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  Speaker 1: Father has inherent life in Himself, so has He given
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  Speaker 1: to the Son to have inherent life within Himself. Speak
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  Speaker 1: the word only and it shall be done. The word
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  Speaker 1: is in your own mouth that ye should know it
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  Speaker 1: and do it. Stranger on earth, thy home is heaven, pilgrim,
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  Speaker 1: thou art the guest of God. The Greater Consciousness Man
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  Speaker 1: is surrounded by a great universal thought power which returns
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  Speaker 1: to him always just as he thinks. So plastic, so
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  Speaker 1: receptive is this mind, that it takes the slightest impression
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  Speaker 1: and molds it into conditions. There are two things in
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  Speaker 1: man which his thought affects, his body and his environment.
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  Speaker 1: At all times he is given absolute control over these
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  Speaker 1: two things, and from the effect of his thought upon
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  Speaker 1: them he cannot hope to escape. At first, being ignorant
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  Speaker 1: of this fact, he binds himself by a misuse of
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  Speaker 1: the laws of his being, but as he begins to
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  Speaker 1: see that he himself is responsible for all that comes
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  Speaker 1: to him on the path of life, he begins to
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  Speaker 1: control his thought. which in its turn acts on the
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  Speaker 1: universal substance to create for him a new world. The
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  Speaker 1: great soul is learning more and more to dare to
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  Speaker 1: fling out into mind a divine idea of himself, and
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  Speaker 1: to see himself perfect and whole. If he has a
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  Speaker 1: divine thought he will get a divine thing, if he
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  Speaker 1: has a human thought he will get a human thing,
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  Speaker 1: he will receive whatever his innermost thought embodies. And so
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  Speaker 1: we find in the Bible twice repeated these words, to
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  Speaker 1: the pure thou wilt show thyself pure and to the
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  Speaker 1: froward thou wilt show thyself froward. It is done unto
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  Speaker 1: all as they believe. We often wonder why it is
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  Speaker 1: that we are not making better demonstrations. We look about
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  Speaker 1: and observe that some are getting wonderful results, they are
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  Speaker 1: speaking the word and people are being healed. We see
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  Speaker 1: others struggling along with the word, and nothing seems to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and when we inquire into the reason for all this
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  Speaker 1: we find it to be very plain indeed. All is
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  Speaker 1: mind and we are mental, we are in mind and
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  Speaker 1: can only get from it what we first think into it.
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  Speaker 1: We must not only think but we must know. We
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  Speaker 1: have to provide within ourselves a mental and spiritual likeness
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: for the thing desired. The reason why so few succeed, then,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: must be because they have not mentally really believed to
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  Speaker 1: the exclusion of all that would deny the thing which
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: they believe in. And the reason why others do succeed
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  Speaker 1: must also be because they have absolutely believed and allowed
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  Speaker 1: real power to flow through and out into expression. They
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  Speaker 1: must have a real concept of life. Hold an object
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  Speaker 1: in front of a mirror and it will image in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror the exact size of the object. Hold a
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  Speaker 1: thought in mind and it will image in matter the
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  Speaker 1: exact likeness of the thought. Let us take this image
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  Speaker 1: which we hold before a mirror and change it ever
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  Speaker 1: so slightly and there will be a corresponding change in
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  Speaker 1: the reflection. It is just the same in the mental world,
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  Speaker 1: whatever is imaged is brought forth from mind into manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: We must not deny that which we affirm. We must
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  Speaker 1: reason only from that cause which is spiritual and mental
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  Speaker 1: and weed out all thought that would deny its power
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  Speaker 1: in our lives. There seems to be something in the
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  Speaker 1: race thought that says man is poor, man is limited,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: that there is a lack of opportunity, that times are hard,
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  Speaker 1: that prices are high, that nobody wants what I have
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  Speaker 1: to offer. No person succeeds who speaks these ideas. When
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: we express ourselves in this way we arc using a
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  Speaker 1: destructive power. All such thoughts must go, and we must
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  Speaker 1: all realize that we are an active center in the
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  Speaker 1: only power there is. We must get the perfect vision,
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  Speaker 1: the perfect conception, we must enlarge our thought until it
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  Speaker 1: realizes all good, and then we must swing right out
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  Speaker 1: and use this almighty power for definite purposes. We should
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  Speaker 1: daily feel a deeper union with life, a greater sense
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  Speaker 1: of that indwelling God, the God of the everywhere, within us.
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  Speaker 1: When we speak into this mind we have sown the
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  Speaker 1: seed of thought in the absolute and may rest in peace.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have to make haste, because it is
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: done unto all as they believe. In that day that
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: they shall call upon me I will answer. People will
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: often ask, what is the best method for demonstration? There
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: is but one answer to that question, the word is
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the only possible method of demonstrating anything, the word really
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  Speaker 1: felt and embodied in our thought. Then the word becomes
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  Speaker 1: flesh and dwells among us and we behold and experience it.
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  Speaker 1: We will ask for no other way when we understand this.
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  Speaker 1: The person who does not understand these laws will be
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  Speaker 1: likely to say that this is presumptuous, that it is
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  Speaker 1: even sacrilegious, but this comes only from a lack of
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the fact that all is governed by law
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  Speaker 1: and that all law is impersonal and universal. We have
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  Speaker 1: just as much right to use spiritual law as to
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: use so-called physical laws. Strictly speaking there is no such
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: a thing as a physical law. as all things are
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: spiritual and all law is a law of the activity
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: of the spirit. The greatest use of these laws will
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: always come to that soul who is the most deeply spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: as such an one comes the nearest to using law
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  Speaker 1: as God uses it. So to the really great soul
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: there must come a very close relationship with the invisible God.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: This relationship cannot be expressed in words but only in
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: inner feeling which transcends the power of words to express.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: God must become the great reality, not simply as the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: principle of life, but more as the great mind which knows,
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  Speaker 1: and which at all times understands and responds. To say
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  Speaker 1: that God does not understand our desires would be to
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  Speaker 1: rob the divine mind of all consciousness and place God
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  Speaker 1: lower in the scale of being than we ourselves are.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand we must be careful not to
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  Speaker 1: believe that God thinks evil and understands that which is
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: not perfect, as then we would have an imperfect being
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  Speaker 1: for the first cause. We should more and more learn
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  Speaker 1: to think of things in the Absolute, that is, to
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: think of things as not limited by conditions. Realize at
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: all times that the spirit makes things out of itself,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and needs no beginning except its own self-recognition. Then we
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: must cognize our relation to this great power as one
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  Speaker 1: of absolute correspondence, what we think into it, it takes
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: up and does for us as we think. It should
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: not be an effort so to think, we should do
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: so with ease, without strain. The law must return to us,
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  Speaker 1: we have no responsibility except to provide the proper channel.
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  Speaker 1: It can return only in the exact way that we think.
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  Speaker 1: If we think struggle is the reality, we shall gain
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  Speaker 1: our demonstration, but struggle will have to be the result.
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  Speaker 1: There is a law of reflection between mind and the
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  Speaker 1: one who thinks, and it is not only what a
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  Speaker 1: man thinks but also how he thinks that shall be
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  Speaker 1: done unto him. If you believe absolutely that you can
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  Speaker 1: do a certain thing, the way will always be open
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  Speaker 1: for you to do it, if also you believe that
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  Speaker 1: time will have to elapse, then you are making that
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  Speaker 1: a law, and time will have to elapse. If on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand you believe that mind knows just how
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  Speaker 1: and never makes mistakes, but lets it be done unto you,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: then it will be done. Confusion brings more confusion, peace
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: begets more peace, we cannot imagine the great spirit hurrying
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  Speaker 1: or worrying, fretting or trying to make anything happen. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason we worry and fret is because we have
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  Speaker 1: thought there was some other power which could bring confusion.
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  Speaker 1: There is but one, and we are always using that
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  Speaker 1: one but using it according to our belief. This is
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  Speaker 1: our divine birthright, nothing hinders but ourselves. Remember that since
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  Speaker 1: all is mind, you cannot demonstrate beyond it. your ability
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  Speaker 1: to comprehend mentally, that is, beyond your ability to know
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  Speaker 1: about a certain thing. For instance, suppose you wish to
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: heal someone who is sick. Your ability to do this
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  Speaker 1: will depend entirely upon your ability to see perfection mentally,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: coupled also with the realization that your word destroys everything
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: unlike itself. If you try to see perfection for a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes only, it will never heal. Your thought goes
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: on at all times, and in the moments when you
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  Speaker 1: least realize it, conditions are being molded for you. It
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: is not enough to declare consciously for the truth. The
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  Speaker 1: truth must be lived or no good results will be forthcoming.
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  Speaker 1: The Perfect Universe The one who desires to heal must
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  Speaker 1: stop seeing, reading about, discussing, or listening to conversation about sickness.
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  Speaker 1: There is no other way under the sun except as
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  Speaker 1: we let go of that which we do not desire,
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  Speaker 1: and take that which we wish to have. There is
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  Speaker 1: too much of this deceiving ourselves into thinking that we
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  Speaker 1: can do two ways at once. We may deceive ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and possibly other people, but the law remains the same,
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  Speaker 1: a law of mental correspondences, and nothing else. We cannot
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  Speaker 1: go beyond our ability to realize the truth, water rises
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: only to its own level. In our patience as well
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: as in ourselves and our environment we will reflect what
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: we are, not at our best in a few moments
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  Speaker 1: of silence, but in the long run of ordinary life
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  Speaker 1: and thought. To acquire the larger consciousness is no easy task.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: All that we have believed in which contradicts the perfect
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: whole must be dropped from our thought, and we must
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: come to realize that we are now living in a
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: perfect universe, peopled with perfect spiritual beings, each of which,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: coupled with the great divinity, is complete within himself. We
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: must see that we are one in the Great One,
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  Speaker 1: and then we will not separate or divide, but unite
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  Speaker 1: and add to, until in time we will find that
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  Speaker 1: we are living in an entirely different world from that
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  Speaker 1: in which we had once thought we were living. Of
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  Speaker 1: course this will meet with much opposition from those unenlightened
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: souls whom we must contact in the world. But what
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: of that? Remember, the Great Man is the one who
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: can keep in the crowd the calm, even thought, the deep,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: divine reliance on principle. And more. This is the only
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: way to help or to save the world. In time
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: all people will come to the same understanding. You are
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: lifting up the standard of life, and those who are
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: ready will follow. You have no responsibility to save the
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: world except by exemplifying the truth. The world must save itself.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: All are alike, there is no difference between one person
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: and another. Come to see all as a divine idea,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: stop all negative thought. Think only about what you want,
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  Speaker 1: and never about what you do not want, as that
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  Speaker 1: would cause a false creation. Too much cannot be said
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: about the fact that all are dealing with only one power,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: making and unmaking for man through the creative power of
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: his own thought. If there is something in your life
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  Speaker 1: that you do not want there, stop fighting it, forget it.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: About struggle, karma. There is too much struggle coming into
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: the metaphysical thought. Often we hear some seeker after truth say,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I have a big fight ahead. O foolish and untaught,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: how can you hope to enter in? The kingdom comes
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: not from without, but from within, always. Stop all struggle
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: and wait upon the sure principle that creates whatever it
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: wills because there is nothing to oppose it. As long
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: as we think that opposition exists we are blocking the
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: way for the clearer vision. Those that take up the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: sword must perish by it. Not because God is a
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: jealous God, but because that is the way the law
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: must work. Cause and effect must obtain everywhere. Do not
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: even fuss about your karma, too often we hear people say,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: this is my karma. This may be true enough, but
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: how many people know what they mean when they use
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: the word karma? Do you realize that your karma is
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: nothing but your false thinking, and that the only way
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to escape it is to think the truth, and that
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: brings in the higher law. when the greater comes and
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: the lesser leaves because there is no longer anything to
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: give life to it. The past is gone when we
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: learn to forgive and to forget. This erases from mind
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: all that is held against us, and even our sins,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: are remembered no more against us forever. Fate is in
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: our own hands, and when we will rise to that
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: pure atmosphere where we see things in their completeness, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: know that an all-wise power is behind it all, we
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: will see that the infinite mind could wish for us
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: only that which expresses itself in limitless terms. The whole
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: trouble has been that we reason as men and not
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: as gods. I say ye are gods and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you sons of the Most High. The great law
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: of life is thinking and becoming. And when we think
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  Speaker 1: from the lofty heights of the Spirit we will become great,
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  Speaker 1: and not until then. Do not try to convince any
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: one of the truth, that will bring confusion. Truth is,
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  Speaker 1: just as much as God is, and the whole world
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: is coming gradually into the realization of it. Keep the
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  Speaker 1: truth within your own soul, lift your own self above
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  Speaker 1: the confusion of life, and then people will believe. So
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  Speaker 1: all our thought is to be created in the realization
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  Speaker 1: of the one becoming the many, without struggle, without fear,
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  Speaker 1: stripped of all that denies the truth. How limited we are,
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  Speaker 1: how little our thought. How the human race rises in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, plods off to the day's work, plods home
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  Speaker 1: at night, sore and tired, eats and sleeps, works and dies.
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  Speaker 1: As has been said of man, man works hard to
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  Speaker 1: get money to buy food to get strength to work
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  Speaker 1: hard to get money to buy food to get strength
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  Speaker 1: to work hard to get money, etc. This was never intended,
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  Speaker 1: it is the curse imposed on the man who believed
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  Speaker 1: in two powers, one of good and one of evil.
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  Speaker 1: To us there has come a greater vision, and to
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  Speaker 1: those who believe and act as though it were true
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  Speaker 1: it is proving itself. We must turn from all human
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  Speaker 1: thought and experience. We are not downtrodden, depraved and miserable sinners,
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  Speaker 1: born in sin and conceived in iniquity and shame, some
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  Speaker 1: to go to heaven and some to hell and all
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  Speaker 1: to the eternal glory of God. This is a lie,
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  Speaker 1: it always was and always will be. But as long
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  Speaker 1: as we believe in a lie it seems to be
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  Speaker 1: present with us. Man is born of the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God Almighty. is pure, holy, perfect, complete and undefiled, is
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  Speaker 1: at one with his eternal principle of being. Many people
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  Speaker 1: are finding this out and as a monument to its
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  Speaker 1: truth millions are daily proving it for themselves. Somewhere down
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  Speaker 1: the path of human experience we will all awake to
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  Speaker 1: the realization that we ourselves are heaven or hell. We
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  Speaker 1: live in spirit awaiting the touch of thought that believes.
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  Speaker 1: All people look, a few see. Part 2 Practice INTRODUCTORY
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  Speaker 1: The one who wishes to practice metaphysics must first, last,
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  Speaker 1: and all the time realize that he himself is a
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  Speaker 1: center of the divine activity, he must know that whatever
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  Speaker 1: God is in the universal, he is in the world
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  Speaker 1: in which he lives. He must know that all things
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  Speaker 1: are made out of spirit, which is first cause, nothing
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  Speaker 1: comes before spirit. Operating upon itself out of itself, it
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  Speaker 1: makes what it will out of its own perfect desire.
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  Speaker 1: He must think of the Spirit as the Father of
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  Speaker 1: his own life, eternally bound to him, eternally binding him
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  Speaker 1: to it. He must know that the Spirit not only
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  Speaker 1: can manifest through him, but that it wishes to do so,
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  Speaker 1: the Father seeks such to worship him. The practitioner who
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  Speaker 1: understands the truth knows that as long as God exists,
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  Speaker 1: he will exist, that he could no more become non-existent
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  Speaker 1: than God could. Walking, Talking, Moving in God he must
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  Speaker 1: not only see the divine being as the great unknown cause,
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  Speaker 1: but he must go a step further and see God
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  Speaker 1: as the great self-knowing, understanding power of infinite intelligence, thinking
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  Speaker 1: through his own thought and willing into his own life
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  Speaker 1: all power and all good. More than this, God must
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  Speaker 1: become within his own soul the greater self, the inner life,
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  Speaker 1: the inner light that is to light his path with
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  Speaker 1: sure step to the attainment of the greater ideals. God
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  Speaker 1: is to become the great friend of his life, understanding him,
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  Speaker 1: and helping him at all times to understand all things.
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  Speaker 1: No more books, no more teachers, no more preachers, creeds
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  Speaker 1: or candlesticks will he ever need. The old methods must
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  Speaker 1: vanish into their native nothingness, as the great realization that
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  Speaker 1: God is all in his life dawns upon his awakened thought.
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  Speaker 1: Not as the squire, when the king's at hand, withdraw
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  Speaker 1: the stars, when dawns the sun's brave light. He must
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  Speaker 1: know that not height, nor depth, nor any other thing,
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  Speaker 1: can come between the soul and its perfect Creator. Too
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  Speaker 1: long have we listened to people, now our own soul
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  Speaker 1: shall speak in a language that is unmistakable, now shall
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  Speaker 1: we ourselves become masters of all life and interpreters of
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  Speaker 1: all mysteries. Now my Father and I are one. As
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God goes forth and sets in motion
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  Speaker 1: the all-law, so must we realize because we are one
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  Speaker 1: with the Word that our own thought has the power
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  Speaker 1: of expression. The one who wishes to heal must come
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  Speaker 1: to see all evil as impersonal, fastening it to no one,
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  Speaker 1: but realizing that it is simply false thought, the healer
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  Speaker 1: knows that the word which he is to speak will
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  Speaker 1: destroy this false impression, and by erasing it, it will vanish.
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  Speaker 1: There should be absolutely no sense of responsibility beyond speaking
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  Speaker 1: the word in positive faith, knowing. All struggle belongs to
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  Speaker 1: the old order. In the new peace takes the place
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  Speaker 1: of confusion, faith answers the cry of doubt and fear,
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  Speaker 1: and the word is supreme. We must know that our
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  Speaker 1: word is law, and cannot be set aside by the
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  Speaker 1: false thought of the world. Every time that we state
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  Speaker 1: a truth, We must know that that truth destroys all
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  Speaker 1: that is unlike itself and frees the thought of the
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  Speaker 1: one whom we wish to help and to heal. This
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  Speaker 1: word must become the new law which frees. People are
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  Speaker 1: sick because they think sickness and will be healed only
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  Speaker 1: when they turn from this kind of thought and begin
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  Speaker 1: to think in terms of health. The same power used
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  Speaker 1: in two ways. There is only one power, but we
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  Speaker 1: use it in two ways, either to destroy or to save.
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  Speaker 1: The blessing and the curse are one and the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: the power of mind used either affirmatively or negatively, the
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  Speaker 1: word used in fear and doubt or in faith and assurance.
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  Speaker 1: You do not have to understand material philosophy or be
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  Speaker 1: learned in the books of the human race. All these
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  Speaker 1: things may be good in their place, but to one
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  Speaker 1: who understands the greater laws of life they are as
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  Speaker 1: simple babblings. An infant crying in the night, an infant
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  Speaker 1: crying for the light. And with no language but a cry.
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  Speaker 1: We no longer cry, we know. We no longer ask
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  Speaker 1: if there be a God, or if we dare to
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  Speaker 1: speak to Him lest we die, we do not analyze, dissect, affirm,
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  Speaker 1: or deny, we know. We trust our own word because
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: first we know in whom we have believed. The sooner
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the one who is striving to attain will realize that
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: truth must become revealed through his own soul, and not
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  Speaker 1: that of another, the sooner he will attain. We must
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  Speaker 1: then become immune from the race suggestion of an hypnotic
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: power that sets itself up as an authority. There is
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  Speaker 1: no other authority than your own soul, as, there is
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  Speaker 1: no law but that your soul has set. Leave authorities
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  Speaker 1: to smaller minds, and to those who need a leader
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  Speaker 1: because of this their own self-confessed weakness, and be free.
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  Speaker 1: Dare to stand amidst the eternal way, and proclaim your
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  Speaker 1: own atonement with all the power that there is, was,
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  Speaker 1: or ever will be. Practically the whole human race is hypnotized,
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  Speaker 1: thinking whatever it is told to think. We get our
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  Speaker 1: concepts from our physical environment, we say, see sin, sickness
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  Speaker 1: and death, misery, unhappiness and calamity. And this concept we
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  Speaker 1: are giving to the creative, impersonal mind, and so we
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  Speaker 1: are making a law for ourselves that will produce what
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  Speaker 1: we believe in. Do we really know what law means?
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  Speaker 1: It means that which will exact the utmost farthing from
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  Speaker 1: our thought. Like produces like, attracts like, creates like. If
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  Speaker 1: we could see our thought and take a picture of
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  Speaker 1: it and of our conditions we would see no difference
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  Speaker 1: between the two, for they are really but the inside
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  Speaker 1: and the outside of the same thing. We cannot make
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  Speaker 1: affirmations for fifteen minutes a day and spend the rest
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  Speaker 1: of our time denying the thing which we have affirmed,
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  Speaker 1: and affirming the thing which we have denied, and obtain
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  Speaker 1: the results which we seek. We send out the word
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  Speaker 1: and it sets the power in motion, then we think
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  Speaker 1: the opposite thing which neutralizes the first word, and zero
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  Speaker 1: is the result. We cannot demonstrate one iota beyond our
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  Speaker 1: mental ability to conceive and steadfastly to embody. Infinite as
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: creative power is, receptive and quick as it is, it
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  Speaker 1: can only become to us what we first think into it.
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  Speaker 1: God can do for us only what He can do
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  Speaker 1: through us. Dare to say, Behold I am He. Great
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  Speaker 1: men have come and gone, and behold a greater now
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  Speaker 1: stands here where I stand, and I am that one.
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  Speaker 1: The world will laugh and perhaps scorn. The Christian world
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: will hold up its hands in holy horror, lest you blaspheme,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: the unchristian world will smile knowingly. Neither the one nor
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: the other will understand, but the understanding of either counts
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  Speaker 1: for nothing. You are now free, and your freedom will
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: yet save the world from itself. The great soul finds
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  Speaker 1: within himself the divine companionship which he needs. He finds
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  Speaker 1: within himself the peace which posseth all understanding, and the
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: power to do all things. all power. He speaks, his
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  Speaker 1: word is law and it is done unto him of
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  Speaker 1: all the power there is. His word knows itself to
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  Speaker 1: be the law of life unto all for whom it
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  Speaker 1: is spoken and who receive it. Healing the sick. We
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: shall be called upon to heal all manner of disease,
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  Speaker 1: to comfort the sorrowing and to bring peace to the distressed.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: First we must heal ourselves. When we are healing others
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: we are also healing ourselves. A healer's work takes place
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  Speaker 1: within himself. This idea of sending out thought and holding
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  Speaker 1: thought is all a mistake. Think, come into being not
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  Speaker 1: only by taking thought, but by knowing that the word
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  Speaker 1: is infinite. This word is in your own mouth, and
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: there alone can it be spoken. Here your responsibility begins
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: and here it ends, in your own mouth. You must
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  Speaker 1: feel no responsibility for the recovery of your patient, for
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: it brings confusion and disturbance to be always wondering if
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: it is working. It must work, if you have the
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: sure faith, and your patient is receptive. You are dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the same power that said, Let there be light,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: and there was light. If your patient is suffering from
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a belief that he is dying of some dread disease,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: you must know that when you speak the word it
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: will destroy this false belief and set him free. There
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: must be no doubt about the power in the word
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  Speaker 1: which you speak. It should be said in perfect calm,
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  Speaker 1: in peace, and with absolute faith that it will work.
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  Speaker 1: This word then establishes the law of life unto the patient,
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  Speaker 1: it casts out all fear, it destroys all false sense
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  Speaker 1: of a material life and realizes that all is an
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  Speaker 1: expression of a perfect God, and so leaves nothing that
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: can sin, be sick, suffer or die. When you are
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: as sure of this as that Vaughan breathe, when you
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  Speaker 1: truly know within yourself, your patient will be healed, provided
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: he also believes. If he does not believe it is
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  Speaker 1: not your fault, and you will have done for him
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  Speaker 1: all that can be done. Denials Some people teach the
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  Speaker 1: use of denials. This must be settled by each individual
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  Speaker 1: for himself. Here and at all times we must settle
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  Speaker 1: every question from within and not from without. No living
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: soul can say how another should or should not work.
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  Speaker 1: Beware of the danger of a self-appointed authority, this danger
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: is as apt to come into new thought as it
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: was in the old. No one is your authority on anything.
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  Speaker 1: Let us look into the philosophy of denials. We find
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: that many people teach and practice them, and we do
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  Speaker 1: not wish in any way to criticize them. Their reasoning
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: is this, all disease is an image of thought held
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: in mind until it appears in the body. It is
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  Speaker 1: true that without the ability to think man could not
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: be sick. If he thinks a sick thought it will
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: make him sick, when he changes his thought and thinks health,
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  Speaker 1: he is healed. It is taught that since sickness is
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: negative thought, it must be counteracted by a positive thought,
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  Speaker 1: and that the best way is to deny the sick
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: and affirm the positive thought, for instance, there is no matter,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing can be the matter. This man has no
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: material stomach, he is spiritual and not material, his lungs
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: are not made of matter, they are spiritual ideas, I
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  Speaker 1: deny that man can be sick or suffer or die.
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  Speaker 1: All this may be accurate. Man is a spiritual idea,
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  Speaker 1: and so must be perfect in his real nature, but
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  Speaker 1: there is a question if this is the better way.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: When we look into the creative way of the Spirit
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: we find it impossible for denial to enter, as the
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Spirit recognizes no opposite to its own nature. It knows that,
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  Speaker 1: I am and beside me there is no other. The
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Spirit does not deny anything, it simply affirms itself to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: be that which it desires to be. Seeing and recognizing
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: no opposite to itself, it finds no need of denial, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: this thought need not enter the mind, if we are
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: working with the spirit we need not deny but state
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: the affirmative attitude of mind, realizing that we are dealing
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: with the only power that exists. There is a subtle
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: danger in using denials, we may deny to such an
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: extent as to erect a barrier or build a mountain
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: to overcome. Once realize that God makes things out of
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: himself simply by speaking, and you will never again use
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: denials in treating. All that needs changing is the false thought,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: and by affirming that your word destroys everything but itself
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: you will embody all that a denial could. In those
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: systems that teach denials we find that the more enlightened
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: ones are gradually using the affirmative method, and as this
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: is the growth of experience there can be no doubt
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  Speaker 1: that it is the better method. Of one thing we
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: may be sure, the spirit never denies. It simply knows
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  Speaker 1: that I am. The Use of Affirmations The affirmation is
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  Speaker 1: the great weapon of the healer, it is in alignment
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: with the way of the original creative spirit and is
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: the true use of the word of all power. We
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  Speaker 1: need only to say that our word is the law
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: unto the case and calmly state what we want to
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  Speaker 1: be done, and then say and do nothing that contradicts
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  Speaker 1: it and wait for the fulfillment of that word. There
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: is a power that operates on what we say, and
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: it is done unto us, and we need have no
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: fear about the results. If I am treating Mary Jones
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: I need only say I am helping her. and go
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: to work within myself to realize that she is now
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: a perfect being, made in the image of God. I
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: must know that I am destroying all imperfection, when I
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: know within myself that I am speaking the truth and
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: realize that she is perfect, the healing is done as
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: far as I am concerned. If she received she is healed.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: I am not responsible for her receptivity. Know that there
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: is a power that corresponds to your own mental attitude
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  Speaker 1: and you will see that the way you are believing
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: is what makes things happen the way they do. Always
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: believe in what you are doing, never see the negative
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  Speaker 1: side of life, never talk about it, or listen to
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: talk of other people, and never think about or see imperfection.
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  Speaker 1: and you will have no trouble in making demonstrations. The
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  Speaker 1: Highest Attitude of Mind The highest attitude of mind, from
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  Speaker 1: which all else springs, is one of perfect calm and
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: absolute trust in the Spirit. The one who can with
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: perfect confidence look into the future and with perfect ease
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: of mind rest in the present, and who never looks backward,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: but who has learned to be still in his own
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: soul and wait upon the Spirit, he is the one
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: who will the most completely demonstrate the supremacy of spiritual
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: thought over all so-called material resistance. Be still and know
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: that I am God. Non-resistance Resist not evil and it
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: will flee from you. Here is a statement of one
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: of the great laws of our being. When we resist
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: we make a mental image of the thing we are fighting,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: and that tends to have it created for us. When
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: we learn to look only at what we want and
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: never at what we do not want, we will no
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: longer resist anything. Suffer it to be so now. You
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: need not try to change the world. Let it alone,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: all people are doing the best they can. No one
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: needs to be saved but yourself, and the sooner you
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: realize this the sooner you will attain. Get over that
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: holier-than-thou attitude. It is an illusion that many people suffer from,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: especially in the religious world. The world is all right,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: it is not going to hell. it is on the
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: way to heaven. It is getting good so fast that
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: in the process many things are being overturned and confusion
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: appears to be on the surface. A great change is
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: taking place, and on the surface the results are as
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: yet a little mixed, but underneath, the power is at
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: work destroying all unlike itself. In time all will come
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  Speaker 1: to see this. What a load of responsibility we assumed
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: that we were never meant to carry. Remember that in
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the divine plan no mistakes are made and that if
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: God could have done it in a better way He
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: would have done it differently. No souls are lost, for
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: all live and move and have their being in Him,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: and God is not a God of the dead but
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: of the living, for in His sight all are alive.
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  Speaker 1: Too long have we believed in the negative simply because
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: we have allowed ourselves to become hypnotized by a few
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: strong-minded people and by those who have imposed upon the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: race a mass of false philosophy. Be alive. There is
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: no place in the new order for dead ones. The
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: true metaphysician is alive to all that is useful. Filling
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: his place in the events of the human race, he
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: takes part in all its labor and in all its fun.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Pessimism must be relegated to the scrap heap. There is
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  Speaker 1: no place among the living for the dead. Let the
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  Speaker 1: dead bury their dead. Follow thou me. Do not hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to enter into the game of life. but do so
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  Speaker 1: with a zest and an enthusiasm that overflows with life.
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  Speaker 1: Fill yourself with the radiance of a life running over
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  Speaker 1: with power and usefulness. Then shall the world see your light.
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  Speaker 1: People in the new thought above all others should enter
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  Speaker 1: into the business world, into educational vocations, into politics, into
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  Speaker 1: every walk of life, and there prove before a waiting world,
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  Speaker 1: tired of itself, that a man's a man, with this difference,
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  Speaker 1: not a son of man, but a son of God.
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  Speaker 1: Be happy. How can we hope to make the world
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  Speaker 1: see the right way unless we overflow with joy? The
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  Speaker 1: world has now too many sad faces. We see them everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: that resigned look that seems to say, one rebuff more
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  Speaker 1: or less makes no difference, I am already so sad
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  Speaker 1: that nothing matters, I can bear it. This was all
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  Speaker 1: right when we thought everything was all wrong. but now
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  Speaker 1: we know that, all's well with the world, we must
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  Speaker 1: get over this depression which robs us of the power
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  Speaker 1: of attraction of the good things of life, and enter in.
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  Speaker 1: The man who is always glad will surround himself with
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  Speaker 1: people who are happy, and life will be a continual enjoyment,
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  Speaker 1: this robs no one, it does not make a race
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  Speaker 1: of irresponsible people, it makes a world of joy, a
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  Speaker 1: world that is good to live in. No one wants
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  Speaker 1: to associate with the dead. People are looking for a
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  Speaker 1: more abundant expression of life, not for depression and fault-finding.
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  Speaker 1: Find fault with no one, and more than this find
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  Speaker 1: no fault with yourself. Get over the thought of condemning
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  Speaker 1: people and things. People and things are all right, let
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  Speaker 1: them alone and enjoy life. Your very atmosphere will cheer
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  Speaker 1: and uplift the people who contact you, and a new
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  Speaker 1: life will enter into them. Overflow. As it's given me
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  Speaker 1: to perceive, I most certainly believe, when a man's glad
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  Speaker 1: plumb through, God's pleased with him same-sue. Live in the present.
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  Speaker 1: Life is for us today. There will be no change
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  Speaker 1: for tomorrow unless we do the changing today. Today we
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  Speaker 1: are setting in motion the power of tomorrow. Today is
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  Speaker 1: God's day, and we must extract from it what of
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  Speaker 1: life we are to live. Tomorrow in the divine course
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  Speaker 1: of events will care for itself. The soul that learns
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  Speaker 1: to live in the great gladness of today will never
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  Speaker 1: weary of life but will find that he is living
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  Speaker 1: in an eternal here and now. Now, all good is his, now,
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  Speaker 1: all life, truth and love are his, now, he has
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  Speaker 1: entered in, and the good things of life are his today. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray, make
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  Speaker 1: me to do thy will just for today. Let your
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  Speaker 1: soul sing today and the song that comes tomorrow will
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  Speaker 1: be all the sweeter. will ring out over the vistas
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  Speaker 1: of time with an unmistakable clearness. Here is a soul
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  Speaker 1: who knows himself and has found life. Within himself, who
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  Speaker 1: has met God today. No more waiting, no more longing,
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  Speaker 1: no more weary roads to travel. He has arrived. The
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  Speaker 1: goal is one and peace has come at last. Today.
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  Speaker 1: See the good in all things. Learn to see God
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  Speaker 1: in all manifestation, in all people, through all events. The
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  Speaker 1: ordinary person sees only the lump of matter. Not so
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  Speaker 1: with the awakened soul. He sees in all things the
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  Speaker 1: divine mind at work molding out into expression what it
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  Speaker 1: feels itself to be of life, of color, of form
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  Speaker 1: and beauty. There are some illusioned ones who claim that
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  Speaker 1: what we see is all false and that the so-called
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  Speaker 1: material universe is an unreality. What a mistake! What we
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  Speaker 1: see is the body of God, full, free, complete, whole.
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  Speaker 1: A primrose by the river's brim, a yellow primrose was
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  Speaker 1: to him, and it was nothing more. He never saw
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  Speaker 1: the idea behind it was seen only as matter, matter, matter,
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  Speaker 1: yet what he could have seen was God's thought of
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  Speaker 1: himself coming out into wonderful beauty, and color, and form,
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  Speaker 1: the infinite one manifesting in an infinite variety of forms.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see when you look upon the human form,
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  Speaker 1: the crowning glory of God's perfect creation? Matter, matter, matter. Flesh,
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  Speaker 1: blood and bones. Indeed, these may be passing into expression,
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  Speaker 1: but what of the idea, what of the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the body? This body of ours is as real as
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  Speaker 1: God is real. It would not be if it were
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  Speaker 1: an illusion. The very touch of the flesh should send
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  Speaker 1: a thrill through the whole body, bringing up its vibration
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  Speaker 1: to a higher pitch, to a finer form. The body
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  Speaker 1: is not one mass of pollution. it is the temple
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  Speaker 1: of the living God and should be so thought of.
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  Speaker 1: Too long have we condemned it, and now we must
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  Speaker 1: free it by reversing the process. Of all things on
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  Speaker 1: earth the human body is the most beautiful, the most
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  Speaker 1: wonderful and the most godlike. If you do not love
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  Speaker 1: your brother whom you have seen, how can you love
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  Speaker 1: God whom you have not seen? Human magnetism is not hypnotism,
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  Speaker 1: it is the divinity of man in expression. And when
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  Speaker 1: we learn to convert human passion into divine love, to
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  Speaker 1: transmute the lower into the higher, we shall have with
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  Speaker 1: us a power of attraction against which nothing can stand.
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  Speaker 1: He who hath ears to hear, let him hear. When
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  Speaker 1: we behold a beautiful sunset we should see the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: thought of God, the radiance of His presence. In the
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  Speaker 1: strength of the hills we should see the strength of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit. And seeing all things as spiritual ideas, we
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  Speaker 1: should learn to love them, because God has made them
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  Speaker 1: and given them to us to use. The soul who
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  Speaker 1: in ecstasy can rush up to a tree and embrace
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  Speaker 1: it realizes more of God than all the bigoted priests
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  Speaker 1: who have ever lived. The one who can sniff the
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  Speaker 1: ocean breeze with delight feels the presence of the divine
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  Speaker 1: being more keenly than does the one who kneels in
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  Speaker 1: despair before an awful God of justice. Learn then how
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  Speaker 1: to appreciate nature and nature's God. Spend much time in
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  Speaker 1: the out-of-doors, look up at the stars, let them be
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  Speaker 1: your companions, Tread the pathless ways of the trees and
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  Speaker 1: the giant forests and see God in everything that you
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  Speaker 1: look upon, the God of the everywhere. Be expectant. Expect
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  Speaker 1: the best to happen. Don't sit around waiting for trouble,
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  Speaker 1: have absolutely nothing to do with it. It is no
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  Speaker 1: part of the divine plan. It is an illusion of
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  Speaker 1: the material sense. One who has learned to trust will
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  Speaker 1: not be surprised even when he finds things coming from
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: the most unexpected sources. All things are man's to use
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  Speaker 1: and then let go of. What more can we ask?
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  Speaker 1: We want nothing that we have to keep. things are
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  Speaker 1: to use not to hold. Expect that everything is to
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  Speaker 1: come your way. Be content and cheerful if you wish
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  Speaker 1: to attract from out the store of the infinite. Open
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  Speaker 1: up your whole consciousness to the greater possibilities of life.
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  Speaker 1: Line up with the big things. When you speak the
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  Speaker 1: word expect it to happen. Know that it must be
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  Speaker 1: as you say. This will not be fooling yourself, it
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  Speaker 1: will simply be using the law as it is meant
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  Speaker 1: to be used. Expanding our thought. All things come to
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  Speaker 1: us through the use of our thought. If we have
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  Speaker 1: a small concept of life we will always be doing
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  Speaker 1: small things. First in the creative series is the word,
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  Speaker 1: but the word carries us no further than our consciousness
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  Speaker 1: back of it. Unless we are constantly expanding our thought
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  Speaker 1: we are not growing. Growth is the law of life
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  Speaker 1: and it is necessary. We cannot stand still. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to do a new thing, get a new thought
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  Speaker 1: and then you will have the power of attraction which
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  Speaker 1: has the possibility of drawing to you the circumstances which
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  Speaker 1: will make for the fulfillment of your desires. Get over
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  Speaker 1: the old idea of limitation. Overcome all precedents and set
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  Speaker 1: yourself in the new order of things. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to build a railroad, you will never do it unless
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  Speaker 1: you get over the idea that the most you can
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  Speaker 1: hope for in life is to sell peanuts. Let the
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: people sell peanuts for a living who think in the
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: terms of peanuts. Get out of the rut. God has
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  Speaker 1: created you for a glorious future, dare to fling out
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  Speaker 1: into mind the greater assurances about yourself. The power of
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  Speaker 1: a treatment. A treatment has as much power as we
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  Speaker 1: put into the word which we speak when we are
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  Speaker 1: giving it. This does not mean screwing up our mind
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  Speaker 1: or using our will power or using force from the
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  Speaker 1: material standpoint. It means simply knowing that what we say
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  Speaker 1: will be done unto us of a power which can
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  Speaker 1: do anything that is given it to do. We must
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  Speaker 1: know that our word breaks down every material law and
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  Speaker 1: sets the patient free to express God. We must know
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  Speaker 1: that the word would endure even though all else should fail.
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  Speaker 1: Heaven and earth will pass away but my word will accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: In calm confidence and perfect faith, speak and wait upon
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  Speaker 1: the perfect law. Get that mental attitude that never wavers.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure and it will be done. Repeating the treatment.
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  Speaker 1: One treatment would heal anything if it were not for
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  Speaker 1: the fact that people are constantly receiving false suggestions from
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: the outer life. As it now stands we should treat
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  Speaker 1: until we get results, always expecting that it will happen
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  Speaker 1: at once. Every treatment should be complete, and at the
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  Speaker 1: close we should always realize that it is done. The
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  Speaker 1: word spoken once from the mind that knows is immediately
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  Speaker 1: taken up by the mind in which we live, and
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  Speaker 1: this mind begins to create around the word, which is
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  Speaker 1: the seed, the thing thought of. We must speak that
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  Speaker 1: word with authority. There can be no wondering if it
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  Speaker 1: is going to work. When we plant a seed in
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  Speaker 1: the ground and water and care for it, we never
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  Speaker 1: doubt but a plant will spring into being. so it
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  Speaker 1: is with the word. It is acted upon by some
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  Speaker 1: power which we do not see, but that the power
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  Speaker 1: is there there is no doubt, since all who go
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  Speaker 1: about it get results. As Thomas Edison says of electricity,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: it is, use it, so we say of mind, it is,
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  Speaker 1: use it. Always remember that your every thought is the
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  Speaker 1: way that you are treating, since it is the way
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  Speaker 1: that you are thinking. Impersonal Healing The very presence of
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  Speaker 1: one that understands the truth will have a great power
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  Speaker 1: of healing. The reason for this is that we are
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  Speaker 1: all in mind, and we have with us at all
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  Speaker 1: times our thought, and since all manifestation is the result
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  Speaker 1: of mind in action, and we are thinking beings and
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  Speaker 1: are always causing mind to act, the very presence of
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  Speaker 1: our thought will have some power to act upon whatever
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  Speaker 1: we are thinking about. We are dealing with a power
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  Speaker 1: which in itself is limitless. We limit it, and so
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  Speaker 1: it cannot become to us the bigger thing. Of itself
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  Speaker 1: the power is the same that made the worlds, and
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  Speaker 1: it cannot realize any sense of limitation. They could not
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  Speaker 1: enter in because of their unbelief and because they limited
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One of Israel. Stop limiting things. Things are
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  Speaker 1: as big as we make them, no more, no less.
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  Speaker 1: There is room at the top. Get on top of everything,
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  Speaker 1: and dare to dominate the earth. All things are given
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  Speaker 1: us to use, make use of them. Everything is limitless,
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  Speaker 1: and we must see the truth that the fault is
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  Speaker 1: not in the law but in ourselves when we fail.
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  Speaker 1: Not with God but with man. Dare, dare, dare. Think
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  Speaker 1: of the bigness of things in the universe, think of
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  Speaker 1: the number of grains of sand, the profusion of all life,
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  Speaker 1: and never again limit anything. All is yours to use.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would never have become the Christ unless He had
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  Speaker 1: had the courage to say, Behold, I am He. You
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  Speaker 1: will never attain until in some degree you are able
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: to say the same thing of yourself. We must learn
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  Speaker 1: to reach out and take what is meant for us,
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  Speaker 1: the greater life, the all good. People say, yes, but
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: how do you do it? Simply know that God makes
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  Speaker 1: things out of himself by speaking the word, and that
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: in your own life you can do the same. All
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  Speaker 1: people can think, and all people can speak, at least mentally,
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  Speaker 1: this is all that you need to begin on. The
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  Speaker 1: Word is at the center of all creation and is
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  Speaker 1: first cause, the starting point of all that you see.
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  Speaker 1: The Word is in your own mouth, and all that
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  Speaker 1: you have to do is to speak it. The trouble
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  Speaker 1: is that we are speaking the Word, and in the
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  Speaker 1: next breath we are denying its power by seeing something
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  Speaker 1: that contradicts it. If the Word is the way that
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: God creates, it is the right way. If it works
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: for God, shall it not work for us? As yet
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  Speaker 1: our Word is more or less imperfect. But more and
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  Speaker 1: more it will become perfect, and so the outer condition
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  Speaker 1: will be brought up to the inner word. All words
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  Speaker 1: have as much power as we put into them when
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  Speaker 1: we speak. The word is already in our own mouths.
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  Speaker 1: That word is all that you will ever need to
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  Speaker 1: bring happiness, health and success to you. Do you wish
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  Speaker 1: to live in a perfect world peopled with friends who
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  Speaker 1: love you, surrounded by all that is beautiful and pleasing?
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  Speaker 1: Do you wish to have the good things of life?
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  Speaker 1: There is but one way and that way is as
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  Speaker 1: sure as that the sun shines. Forget all else and
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  Speaker 1: think only upon what you want. Control all thought that
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  Speaker 1: denies the real, and as the mist disappears before the
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  Speaker 1: sun so shall all adversity melt before the shining radiance
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  Speaker 1: of your own exalted thought. The prodigal son remained a
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  Speaker 1: prodigal only so long as he chose to do so.
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  Speaker 1: When the thought came to him to return he was
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  Speaker 1: greeted by the father with outstretched hands. So shall we
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  Speaker 1: find that when we turn to that world which is
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  Speaker 1: perfect there will be something that will turn with us,
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  Speaker 1: and we shall behold the new heaven and the new earth,
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  Speaker 1: not in some far-off place somewhere beyond the clouds, but
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  Speaker 1: here and now shall we become free. We must do
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  Speaker 1: away with all that hinders the true growth, all the
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: little thoughts that hinder us from becoming. Human strife comes
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: from the thought that there is not enough to go around.
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  Speaker 1: Forget it. We cannot use even what we see, and
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  Speaker 1: what we do not see is infinite. You will rob
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  Speaker 1: no one by becoming prosperous, and the laws that underlie
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: this state of being are simple and easy to understand,
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  Speaker 1: and not hard to attain for the one who is
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  Speaker 1: willing to let go of the negative state of being.
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  Speaker 1: Prosperity Here are a few simple rules for prosperity that
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  Speaker 1: are as sure of working as that water is sure
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: to be wet. First remember that nothing happens by chance.
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  Speaker 1: All is law and all is order. You create your
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: own laws every time you think. There is something, call
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  Speaker 1: it what you will, but there is a power around
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: you that knows and that understands all things. This power
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  Speaker 1: works like the soil, it receives the seed of your
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It
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  Speaker 1: will receive whatever you give to it and will create
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: for you and throw back at you whatever you think
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  Speaker 1: into it. This means that the practitioner should be very
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  Speaker 1: careful how he is thinking at all times. Not alone
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: in the moments of the deeper silence are retreating our patience.
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  Speaker 1: but perhaps more than this we are treating them in
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  Speaker 1: an impersonal way at all times. When we take a
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  Speaker 1: patient into our thought for a treatment there will be
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: a constant stream of consciousness flowing out to him, during
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  Speaker 1: all the time that he is in our care. We
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  Speaker 1: should be very careful of our thoughts as we realize
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  Speaker 1: the deep truths of mental action and reaction. What is
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: the spiritual mind? What is true spirituality? Many people have
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: asked this and as many have answered it. I do
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  Speaker 1: not pretend to know more about this all-important topic than others,
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  Speaker 1: but to the thinking person who has come to realize
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  Speaker 1: that all is love, yet at the same time all
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  Speaker 1: is governed by law, there must be a different answer
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: given than the one we ordinarily hear. The average religious
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  Speaker 1: person thinks that spirituality must manifest in some unnatural way,
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  Speaker 1: such as giving up all personal pleasure and becoming resigned
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  Speaker 1: to whatever happens. That we must give up most of
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  Speaker 1: what life holds here, that in some far-off future perhaps
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: we may attain this was not the case with the
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  Speaker 1: man Jesus. We have more accounts of his being at
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: feasts and weddings and similar gatherings than at other places.
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  Speaker 1: His first miracle was performed at a wedding feast, and
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  Speaker 1: we must remember that here he even turned water into
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  Speaker 1: wine for the pleasure of the guests of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps we have made a mistake about what true spirituality means.
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  Speaker 1: Other people think we must live some kind of an
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: excluded life in order to obtain. Perhaps this may be
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  Speaker 1: true of the weak ones. But what of the wood?
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  Speaker 1: What of the busy street? Is it not to be
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: saved also? Jesus spent much time with the common people
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  Speaker 1: as well as with the rich. And it is certain
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  Speaker 1: that he also spent much time alone with the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: What is the spirit, anyway? We all answer, why of course,
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  Speaker 1: it is God. Where is the spirit? It is present
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  Speaker 1: at all times and in all places. True spirituality must
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  Speaker 1: simply mean coming to realize the presence of this spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It must be coming to rely upon it more than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. The one then who is the most spiritual
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  Speaker 1: is simply the one who relies the most, that is all.
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  Speaker 1: No matter where he is, he must rely, he must trust,
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  Speaker 1: he must believe. We do not have to give up
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  Speaker 1: anything but negative thought and act. We do not want
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  Speaker 1: to do anything that contradicts the forward march of the
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  Speaker 1: unfoldment of the Spirit, so all that we think and
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  Speaker 1: do must be in line with that which is right.
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  Speaker 1: But who shall say what is and what is not right?
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  Speaker 1: Remember this forever, only your own soul shall say what
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  Speaker 1: is right and what is wrong. To thine own self
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  Speaker 1: be true, and it shall follow as the night the day,
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  Speaker 1: thou canst not then be false to any man. Look
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  Speaker 1: to no one for guidance. This is the blind leading
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  Speaker 1: the blind. The Almighty has put the truth into your
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  Speaker 1: own soul, look there and there alone for it. Many
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  Speaker 1: people seem to think that for a man to look
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  Speaker 1: spiritual he must have no color in his face, have
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  Speaker 1: some kind of faraway truth, he must be peculiar either
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  Speaker 1: in looks or in the way he dresses. To one
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  Speaker 1: who knows the truth, both praise and blame sound alike,
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  Speaker 1: but from the human standpoint at least a person cannot
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  Speaker 1: help being amused at the way in which the world
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  Speaker 1: judges true spirituality. My idea of true spirituality is that
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  Speaker 1: a man should live a perfectly normal life, entering into
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  Speaker 1: and enjoying all in life that is clean and good.
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  Speaker 1: He should place himself absolutely under the divine guidance. Other
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  Speaker 1: than this he will seem just like other people, neither
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  Speaker 1: better nor worse. Get over all kinds of unnatural thought
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  Speaker 1: and remember that all is good. Neither criticize nor condemn
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  Speaker 1: people or things. You are spiritual in so far as
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  Speaker 1: you trust in the Spirit, at all times, in all places,
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  Speaker 1: under all conditions. In order to do this you do
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  Speaker 1: not have to seclude yourself from the world. To do
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  Speaker 1: so is an open confession of your own weakness and lack.
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  Speaker 1: There are moments when it is best to be alone
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  Speaker 1: with the power. From these moments we gather strength. To
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  Speaker 1: keep that strength to ourselves is pure selfishness. Walk, talk,
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  Speaker 1: live with the human race, hand in hand with all
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  Speaker 1: people and unified with all events, live and love and learn.
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  Speaker 1: Be natural and normal. If you seek to enter some
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  Speaker 1: other way it must all be done over again, for
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  Speaker 1: no one lives or dies unto himself but unto all people.
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  Speaker 1: The Church of God The Church of God is not
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  Speaker 1: built with hands, it is eternal in the heavens, it
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  Speaker 1: is not lighted with candles. Its dome is heaven and
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  Speaker 1: it is lighted by the stars of God's illumined thought,
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  Speaker 1: and each member in his separate star shall draw the
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  Speaker 1: thing as he sees it, for the God of things
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  Speaker 1: as they are. Here all people recognize the God within
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  Speaker 1: their own souls and ask for and see no other God.
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  Speaker 1: When you can look upon all creation as the perfect
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  Speaker 1: work of a perfect God, you will become a member
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  Speaker 1: of this church. I doubt very much if the church
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  Speaker 1: universal admits members from the church individual. When you can
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  Speaker 1: see in the saint and the sinner one and the
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  Speaker 1: same person, when you can realize that the one who
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  Speaker 1: kneels before the altar and the one who lies drunk
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  Speaker 1: in the street is the same one, when you can
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  Speaker 1: love the one as much as you do the other,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt you will be able to qualify. As it
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  Speaker 1: now is we have too many preachers who do not understand,
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  Speaker 1: that have no purpose, too many prayers, too many creeds,
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  Speaker 1: too many teachers, that have no message. Too many churches,
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  Speaker 1: too many learned people, and too few thinkers. the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of heaven cometh not by observation. It is the, still,
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  Speaker 1: small voice within the soul that speaks. The expanded thought
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  Speaker 1: will never wish to join or be joined to. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: human can contain it. It feels the limitation of form
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  Speaker 1: and ceremony and longs for the freedom of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the great out-of-doors, the great God of the everywhere. Alone
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  Speaker 1: in the desert, the forest, or by the restless ocean,
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  Speaker 1: looking up at the stars, man breathes forth these words,
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  Speaker 1: with only my Maker and me. The Path to Prosperity
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  Speaker 1: The healing of conditions is no different from other healing.
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  Speaker 1: All healing is the constructive use of a mental law
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  Speaker 1: which the world is gradually beginning to understand something of.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: Again we must reiterate the principle of all life. We
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  Speaker 1: are surrounded by a thinking medium from which all things come.
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  Speaker 1: We think into it, it does the rest. Since we
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  Speaker 1: are thinking beings and cannot stop thinking, and since creative
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  Speaker 1: mind receives our thought and cannot stop creating, it must
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  Speaker 1: always be making something for us. What it will make
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: depends absolutely and only upon what we are thinking, and
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  Speaker 1: what we will attract will depend entirely upon our holding
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  Speaker 1: thought to the complete exclusion of all that would contradict it.
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  Speaker 1: It is not enough that we should sit down and say,
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  Speaker 1: I am one with infinite life. This must mean more
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  Speaker 1: than mere words. It must be felt, it must become
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  Speaker 1: an embodiment of a positive mental attitude. It is not
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  Speaker 1: claiming something to be true which is going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: it is not sending out an aspiration, or a desire,
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  Speaker 1: or a supplication, or a prayer, it must be the
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  Speaker 1: embodiment of that which knows that now it is. This
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  Speaker 1: is more than holding a thought. Our ability to attract
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  Speaker 1: will depend upon the largeness of our thought as we
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  Speaker 1: feel that it flows out into a great universal creative power.
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  Speaker 1: We are dealing with the form in thought, and not
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  Speaker 1: with the form in matter. We have learned that when
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  Speaker 1: we get the true form in thought and permeate it
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  Speaker 1: with the spirit of belief we will see the thought
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  Speaker 1: made flesh without any further effort on our part. Thought
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  Speaker 1: can attract to us only that which we first mentally embody.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot attract to ourselves that which we are not.
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  Speaker 1: We can attract in the outer only that which we
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  Speaker 1: have first completely mentally embodied within, that which has become
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  Speaker 1: a part of our mental makeup, a part of our
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  Speaker 1: inner understandings. A man going into business will attract to
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  Speaker 1: himself that which he thinks about the most. If he
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  Speaker 1: is a barber he will attract people who want to
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  Speaker 1: be shaved or have their hair cut. If he sells
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: shoes he will attract people who want to buy shoes.
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  Speaker 1: See Creative Mind and Success, by the author of the
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  Speaker 1: present volume. So it is with everything, we will not
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  Speaker 1: only do this, but we will also attract as much
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  Speaker 1: of anything as we mentally embody. This is apt to
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  Speaker 1: be overlooked in the study of metaphysics. It is not
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  Speaker 1: enough to say that we attract what we think, we
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  Speaker 1: become what we think, and what we become we will attract.
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  Speaker 1: Do not become merely sentimental about this. Your life is
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  Speaker 1: governed by more than a sentiment, it is governed by law,
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  Speaker 1: something that cannot be broken, something that picks up every
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: mental attitude and does something with it. This fundamental proposition
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  Speaker 1: of the law should then work out into our conditions.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember that it does just as we think. It
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  Speaker 1: does not argue, it simply does the thing as we
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  Speaker 1: think it. Now how are we thinking? Never ask a
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: patient how he is feeling, ask, how are you thinking today?
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  Speaker 1: This is the only thing that matters. How are we
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  Speaker 1: thinking about life and our conditions? Are we receiving the
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: race suggestion, are we saying that there is not enough
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  Speaker 1: to go around? If we are saying this, it is
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  Speaker 1: our belief, and there is something that will see that
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  Speaker 1: it becomes a part of our expression. Most people, through
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: ignorance of the higher laws of their being, are suffering
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  Speaker 1: from the thoughts imposed upon them from a negative and
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: doubtful world. We who are claiming the use of the
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: greater law must emancipate ourselves from all sense of limitation.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: We are not to be governed by the outer confusion
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  Speaker 1: but by the inner realization. We are to judge life
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  Speaker 1: not from the way that things in the past have
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  Speaker 1: been done, but from the way that the Spirit does things.
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  Speaker 1: The Way of the Spirit Again let us say that
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  Speaker 1: the spirit creates by becoming the thing that it thinks.
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  Speaker 1: There is no other possible way in which it could work.
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  Speaker 1: Since it is all and there is no other, the
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  Speaker 1: thought of opposing forces never enters into its mental working,
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  Speaker 1: when we are judging from the outer we are not
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  Speaker 1: working in line with the power that we should be using.
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  Speaker 1: We must come to see that there is only one
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  Speaker 1: power and that we are touching it at all points,
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  Speaker 1: for there is not a power of poverty and a
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: power of prosperity. There is the one becoming the many.
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  Speaker 1: it makes and it unmakes that a higher form may
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  Speaker 1: appear to express through it. All that is not in
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  Speaker 1: line with its forward movement will soon pass away, for
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: it recognizes no opposite. As far as we are concerned
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: what we are and what we are to become depends
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  Speaker 1: only upon what we are thinking, for this is the
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  Speaker 1: way that we are using creative power. The sooner we
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: get away from the thought that we have to create,
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  Speaker 1: the sooner we will be able to work in line
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  Speaker 1: with the spirit. Always man uses, he never creates anything.
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  Speaker 1: The united intelligence of the human race could not make
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  Speaker 1: a single rosebud, it does not know enough. But our
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  Speaker 1: slightest thought adrift in mind causes the same power that
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: makes all things to create for us. The great error
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: of the race is, and always has been, that men
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  Speaker 1: have thought to give a physical reason for things. When
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  Speaker 1: that reason has not answered the problems of life they
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: have sought out some other reason just as physical. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that they are all wrong is shown in that
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  Speaker 1: every generation has found a different reason. When truth is
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  Speaker 1: found it will also be found that it never changes
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  Speaker 1: to suit the whims of the human fancy. This is
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: proven by the fact that whatever of the real truth
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: the race has discovered has never been changed. The truth
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  Speaker 1: that was revealed to the prophets of old has never changed,
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  Speaker 1: it is the same today as it was thousands of
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: years ago. Whoever touches truth, no matter in what generation,
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  Speaker 1: will always get the same answer. The great truth that
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  Speaker 1: was revealed from Moses to the time of Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the same truth that is still revealed to all who
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  Speaker 1: will accept it, it is simply this. we are now
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  Speaker 1: living in a spiritual universe governed by mental laws of
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: cause and effect. Moses saw it mostly from the standpoint
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: of the law of cause and effect, an eye for
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: an eye. What does this mean? It means, as Jesus said,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: as a man sows, so shall he reap. Moses saw
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: the law. Jesus saw not only the law, I am
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: come not to destroy but to fulfill, but he saw
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: behind the law the reason for it. and revealed behind
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: all law the great lawgiver, a God of love working
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: out the great inner concepts of His own being in
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: harmony and in beauty, filled with peace, causing the sun
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: to shine alike upon the just and the unjust. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did not try to overcome the use of law, He
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  Speaker 1: understood all law and He well knew that all law
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: was at His command. He did not break the law,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: He fulfilled it. So we must find that all is
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  Speaker 1: at our command through these same laws. The man who
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  Speaker 1: understands law and complies with it will have no difficulty
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  Speaker 1: in demonstrating that it is as true for him as
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: it ever was for anyone else. What, then, are the
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: laws underlying prosperity? The first is this, and we must
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  Speaker 1: not try to escape it, Thou shalt have no other
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  Speaker 1: gods before me. This me is spirit. We are, then,
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  Speaker 1: to trust only in the activity of spirit for what
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: we need. But the world will say, Human things come
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: through human agencies. This may be true, but we must
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  Speaker 1: realize that the power we are dealing with also has
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: within its own mind all people and all things. We
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: do not have to treat people, what we have to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: do is to embody principle. Principle may use people, but
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: that is no part of our responsibility. Ultimately all is spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and spirit which is the beginning is also the end
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: of all manifestation. I am the Alpha and the Omega.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: Our life, then, is to be governed by Spirit. We
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  Speaker 1: need look no further. It will do for us all
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: that we will ever ask, provided we believe. Why, then,
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  Speaker 1: has it not done so? The answer is that it
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  Speaker 1: has already done so, but we have not received it.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: The Spirit may offer, but we must accept the gift
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  Speaker 1: before it can be made. Behold, I stand at the
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  Speaker 1: door and knock. We must understand that this receiving is
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  Speaker 1: a mental process. it is one of mentally taking. The way, then,
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  Speaker 1: that we are using mind through our thought is the
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: way that we are treating ourselves for prosperity. So simple,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: and yet we have not understood it. If a man says,
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  Speaker 1: I have not, he will not receive, if he says,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: I have, he will receive. To those who have shall
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: be given, and to those who have not shall be
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: taken away even that which they have. This is a
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: veiled statement of the law of cause and effect. When
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: you send out into mind the thought that you have not,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: it accepts the idea and takes away from you even
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: that which you have. Reverse the process and say, I have,
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  Speaker 1: and it will at once set to work to create
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: for you even more than you now possess. You will
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  Speaker 1: readily see then that you are not dealing with two
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: powers but with one, and that it operates through your
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: own thought, doing unto all even as they believe. The
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: Level of Consciousness Since all is mind, and it is
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  Speaker 1: done unto us as we mentally think, All life is
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: simply a law of thought activity of consciousness. In our
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: life the power flows through us. If we provide a
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: big receptivity, it will do a big thing, if, on
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: the other hand, we only believe in a small way,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: the activity must be a small one. The spirit can
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  Speaker 1: do for us only what it can do through us.
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  Speaker 1: Unless we are able to provide the consciousness, it cannot
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: make the gift. Few people have a great consciousness, and
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: this explains why so few excel. The power behind all
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  Speaker 1: things of itself is without limit, it is all power,
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  Speaker 1: in us it has to become what we make it.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: We carry within our own soul the key to all expression,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: but few enter in. The door is not seen with
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: the physical eye, and as yet but few have gained
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: the ability to see, the majority merely look. Realizing, then,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: that while the power is limitless it must become operative
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: through our own thought, we shall see that what we
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: need is not some greater power, but that what we
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: really need is a greater consciousness, a deeper realization of life,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: a grander concept of being. We must unify ourselves with
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: the great whole. The man who dares to fling his
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: thought out into universal intelligence with the positive assurance of
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: one who knows and dares to claim all there is
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: will find that it will be done. God will honor
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: his request. On the other hand, The one who fears
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: to speak lest God will smite will find himself smitten
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: of the law, not because God is angry, but because
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: it is done as he believes. We have a right
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: to have and should expect to have in this world
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: all that will make for the comfort and for the
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: luxuries of life. What matter how much we have, if
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: we rob no other soul to get it? Shall not
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: the power that so lavishly spreads itself out into nature
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: give to us its highest expression, all that we can ask?
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: We dishonor God when we claim less than all. Until
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: we can expand our thoughts so that we shall be
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: able to say also, I am, we need not expect
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: to get great results. The soul that knows its own
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: divinity is the great soul, before it all else must bend,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: to it all else must gravitate. Enlarge your thought processes.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: Away with the little personal thoughts of things, and dare
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: to think in universal terms about all things. The universe
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: is running over with good, it is for you, but
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: you must believe and then take it. Do you dare
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: to believe that your own word is invincible? When you
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: speak it how do you feel? Is it limitless, is
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: it all power, is all power given to you in
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: heaven and on earth? Are you one with the only
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: power that there is? Until you can say yes to
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: all these questions and not simply believe them but know them,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot hope to attain. It is useless in making
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: a demonstration to beg for things. as well beg that
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: water should be wet or that fire should be hot.
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  Speaker 1: Things are, we must take them. Your word has only
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: the power that you put into it, no more and
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: no less. We are all held accountable for every word
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  Speaker 1: that we speak because all is the action and the
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  Speaker 1: reaction of mind. Man is his own heaven and his
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  Speaker 1: own hell. We start a new enterprise and wonder what
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  Speaker 1: the chances of success are, have we realized that the
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  Speaker 1: outer is simply the inner manifested? When we go to
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  Speaker 1: a new place we shall find there only what we
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  Speaker 1: have taken with us. If we have taken success we
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  Speaker 1: will find success, if, on the other hand, we have
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  Speaker 1: taken failure we will find failure. This is the law,
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  Speaker 1: none can avoid it, none need try. Every living soul
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  Speaker 1: is a law unto his own life. There is no
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  Speaker 1: law but my own soul shall set. Nothing can come
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  Speaker 1: upon the path of the soul but that thing that
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  Speaker 1: the soul attracts. Practice for Prosperity Prosperity is in our
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  Speaker 1: own hands to do with as we will, but we
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  Speaker 1: will never reach it until we learn to control our thought.
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  Speaker 1: We must see only what we want and never allow
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  Speaker 1: the other things to enter. If we wish activity we
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  Speaker 1: must be active in our thought, we must see activity
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  Speaker 1: and speak it into everything that we do. The spoken
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  Speaker 1: word shall bring it to pass. We speak the word,
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  Speaker 1: it is brought to pass of the power that we
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  Speaker 1: speak it into. We can only speak the word that
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  Speaker 1: we understand, the activity will correspond to our inner concepts.
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  Speaker 1: If they are large the results will be large. The
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  Speaker 1: thing to do is to unify ourselves with all the
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  Speaker 1: biggest ideas that we can compass, and realizing that our
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  Speaker 1: ideas govern our power of attraction, we should be constantly
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  Speaker 1: enlarging within ourselves. We must realize our at-one-ment with all
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  Speaker 1: power and know that our word will bring it to pass.
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  Speaker 1: We speak the word, It is brought to pass of
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  Speaker 1: as consciousness grows it will manifest in enlarged opportunities and
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: a greater field of action. Most people think in the
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  Speaker 1: terms of universal powers. Feel that you are surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: all the power that there is when you speak and
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  Speaker 1: never doubt but that what you say will spring into being.
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  Speaker 1: We should speak right out into mind all that we
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  Speaker 1: desire and believe that it will be done unto us.
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  Speaker 1: Never take the time to listen to those who doubt.
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  Speaker 1: We observe that their philosophy has done but little to
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  Speaker 1: save the world or themselves. Here again let the dead
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  Speaker 1: bury the dead and see to it that you maintain
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  Speaker 1: in your own thought what you want, letting go of
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  Speaker 1: all else. Think only what you want to happen and
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  Speaker 1: never let yourself get mentally lazy and sluggish taking on
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  Speaker 1: the suggestions of poverty and limitation. See yourself as being
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  Speaker 1: in the position that you desire, mentally dwell upon it
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  Speaker 1: and then speak with perfect assurance that it is done,
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  Speaker 1: and then forget it and try in the law. This
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  Speaker 1: will answer all needs. If you want to do this
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  Speaker 1: for someone else, all that you will need to do
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  Speaker 1: is to think of them and go through the same
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  Speaker 1: process of mind action. You will be sending out the
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  Speaker 1: truth for them, and mind being always active will not
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  Speaker 1: contradict what you have said. Remember that you cannot hope
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  Speaker 1: to get results unless you keep but the one idea
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  Speaker 1: and do not mix thoughts in your mind. All is yours,
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  Speaker 1: but you must take it. The taking is always a
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  Speaker 1: mental process, it is believing absolutely. This is divine principle.
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  Speaker 1: Conclusion Principle itself is simplicity, yet it is infinite it
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  Speaker 1: is infinite mind and manifestation of mind. We live in
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual universe governed through thought, or the word which
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  Speaker 1: first becomes law. this law creates what we call matter.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ discerned the truth about spiritual principles more than
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  Speaker 1: any other man who ever lived, and he proclaimed the
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  Speaker 1: eternal reign of law and understanding, absolute, complete, perfect, and
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  Speaker 1: he found that law to be operative through his own
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  Speaker 1: thought and the power of his own word. And when
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  Speaker 1: you and I shall cease looking outside ourselves to any
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  Speaker 1: person and shall realize that whatever truth and whatever power
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  Speaker 1: we shall have must flow through us, when we begin
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  Speaker 1: to interpret our own natures, we shall begin to understand
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  Speaker 1: God and law, and life, and not until then. We
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  Speaker 1: live and move and have our being in what we
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: call an infinite mind, an infinite creative mind, also infinitely receptive, operative, omnipotent,
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  Speaker 1: and all-knowing. And we have learned that this mind presses
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  Speaker 1: against us on all sides, flows through us, and becomes
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  Speaker 1: operative through our thinking. The human race, ignorant of the
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  Speaker 1: laws of this mind, ignorant of the power of its
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  Speaker 1: own thought, has through its ignorance misused and abused the
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  Speaker 1: creative power of its thought, and brought upon itself the
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  Speaker 1: thing it feared. This is true because all thought is law,
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  Speaker 1: and all law is mind in action, and the word
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  Speaker 1: which you speak today is the law which shall govern
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  Speaker 1: your life tomorrow, as the word which you spoke, ignorantly
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  Speaker 1: or innocently, consciously or unconsciously yesterday, is absolutely governing your
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  Speaker 1: life today. As metaphysicians, then, we are not dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a material, nor denying a manifest universe. but we are
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  Speaker 1: claiming that the manifestation is the result of the inner
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  Speaker 1: activity of the mind. And if we wish for a
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  Speaker 1: definite manifestation, we must produce a definite inner activity. You
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  Speaker 1: and I, then, are not dealing with conditions, but with
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  Speaker 1: mental and spiritual law. We are dealing with the power
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  Speaker 1: of thought, the power of mind, and the more spiritual
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  Speaker 1: the thought the higher the manifestation. The more our reliance
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  Speaker 1: upon what we call God, the greater the power. It
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  Speaker 1: is the new education because it strips all the false
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  Speaker 1: from the old belief and reveals the individual. It is
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  Speaker 1: the new age because as sure as God is, it
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  Speaker 1: will usher in and express the perfect life, the revelation
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  Speaker 1: of this truth, and our ability to use it, and
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  Speaker 1: it is your own fault when you know this and
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  Speaker 1: do not prove it. If, knowing the infinite power flowing
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  Speaker 1: through you, you still remain sick and unhappy, miserable and poor,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, it is your own fault. Do not blame God,
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  Speaker 1: do not blame man, and do not say it is
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. It is your own fault. Every time
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  Speaker 1: you say I am, you are recognizing the eternal infinite
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  Speaker 1: presence of omnipotent power within yourself, which is God operating
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  Speaker 1: through your thought, and that is why you bring upon
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: yourself the thing you fear, and why you bring to
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  Speaker 1: yourself the thing you want. When 51% of your thinking
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  Speaker 1: is health and life and power, that day the 51%
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  Speaker 1: will swallow up, erase, kill out the rest. The day you,
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  Speaker 1: as an individual, through 51% of your thought, pass beyond
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  Speaker 1: the perception of limitation, you will draw out of the
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  Speaker 1: universe everything you desire, poverty will desert you and you
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  Speaker 1: will be emancipated forever. The day you think 51% of happiness,
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  Speaker 1: misery shall depart and never return. Is it not then
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  Speaker 1: worth your time and your effort, and should it not
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest purpose in the life of any awakened
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  Speaker 1: soul so to depict this principle as to emancipate himself?
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  Speaker 1: The way can be shown, but each individual must himself
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  Speaker 1: walk the way. We are so bound by suggestion and
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  Speaker 1: hypnotized by false belief, so entangled by the chaotic thinking
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  Speaker 1: of the world, thinking which is based upon the principle
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  Speaker 1: of a dual mind, that we become confused and are
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  Speaker 1: not ourselves. Wake up. Your word is all-powerful, your consciousness
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  Speaker 1: is one with omnipotence. Your thought is infinite. Your destiny
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  Speaker 1: is eternal and your home is everlasting heaven. Realize the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I am living in a perfect universe, it always was
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  Speaker 1: perfect and always will be perfect. There never was a
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  Speaker 1: mistake made, there are no mistakes being made, and there
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  Speaker 1: never will be. I live in the great and eternal
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  Speaker 1: universe of perfection from cause to effect, from beginning to end, and,
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  Speaker 1: the world's all right, and I know it. Majestic and calm,
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: waiting with eternal and divine patience, the great principle of
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  Speaker 1: life is ready to give to us all that it has.
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  Speaker 1: And while we listen and wait we will cast from
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: us everything that hinders its complete expression through us, we
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  Speaker 1: will let go of all struggle and all strife and
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  Speaker 1: be at peace with life. Perfect peace to the soul
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  Speaker 1: as we rest in the realization of our unity with
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  Speaker 1: all that there is, was or ever will be. One
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  Speaker 1: with the infinite mind. All the power of the spirit
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  Speaker 1: is working through our thought as we believe and receive.
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  Speaker 1: Now we will ask for and take that thing which
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: we desire, it is done, it is complete, now and forever.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect life, perfect healing, perfect harmony, divine guidance, infinite strength
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  Speaker 1: and joy forever. Questions and Answers What is the truth?
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  Speaker 1: The truth is that which is. It is all that is.
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  Speaker 1: As there cannot be something and nothing, so the truth,
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  Speaker 1: being that which is, must at the same time be
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  Speaker 1: all that there is. Where is the truth? If the
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  Speaker 1: truth is all, it must be everywhere. Being all, there
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  Speaker 1: is no other substance to divide it with, being undivided,
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  Speaker 1: it is everywhere present. All truth, which means all power,
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  Speaker 1: must be present at all points, or at any given point,
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  Speaker 1: at any and at all times. Has the truth changed?
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  Speaker 1: A substance cannot change unless there is something for it
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  Speaker 1: to change into. Since the truth is all, it cannot change,
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  Speaker 1: for there is no other thing for it to change into,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: whatever is the truth, then, has never changed. Is the truth,
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  Speaker 1: or that which is, one or many? It must be one,
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  Speaker 1: since it is all. Is the truth conscious? Yes, man
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  Speaker 1: is conscious. He could not be so unless truth or
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  Speaker 1: life were conscious. Man's self-consciousness proves the self-consciousness of life
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  Speaker 1: or truth or spirit. Like produces like. What comes out
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  Speaker 1: of life? Everything that is comes out of life. If
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  Speaker 1: life is all then it follows that all that is
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  Speaker 1: is some form of life. How does life make things?
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  Speaker 1: Being all, it must make things out of itself. It
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  Speaker 1: must operate upon itself, through itself, and out of itself
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  Speaker 1: must make all that is made. Being conscious, it must
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  Speaker 1: know that it is doing this. What would we call
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  Speaker 1: this inner movement of life? The inner movement of life
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  Speaker 1: or consciousness we would call thought or the self-knowing of
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  Speaker 1: life or spirit. Then the universe and all that is
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  Speaker 1: a part of it comes from thought. Yes, everything comes
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  Speaker 1: from thought. Do we not see a visible world that
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  Speaker 1: seems to change, and if we do, how is it
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  Speaker 1: that it could come from something that never changes? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we do see a changing world, but back of it
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  Speaker 1: is a changeless substance. The thing that changes is the
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  Speaker 1: thought or form. the substance from which this form comes
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  Speaker 1: never changes. It is one and undivided, and takes form
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  Speaker 1: through thought in all things. We prove this when we
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  Speaker 1: resolve all things into one source. All material things, so called,
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  Speaker 1: can be reduced into formless substance, the sole activity of
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  Speaker 1: which must be thought or the movement of intelligence upon itself.
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  Speaker 1: What causes form to change? The intelligence behind it. Is
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  Speaker 1: there nothing in the universe, then, but life, thought and form?
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  Speaker 1: These are all. If this is true, what is physical law?
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  Speaker 1: Physical law is simply the result of the inner movement
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  Speaker 1: of life. If things and laws are the result of
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: the inner movement of life, then does it not follow
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  Speaker 1: that thoughts are things? Yes, all things are simply thought forms.
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  Speaker 1: How long does thought last as form? As long as
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  Speaker 1: the thought is held in life or mind. Does the
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  Speaker 1: thought of life, mind or good ever change? From all
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  Speaker 1: that we can know the thought of God seems to change.
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  Speaker 1: That is, planets change, take form and again become formless.
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  Speaker 1: When we realize that all this can take place without
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  Speaker 1: ever changing the substance behind it, we see no reason
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  Speaker 1: why God's thought could not change and ever build up
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  Speaker 1: a higher form. Indeed, this is one of the teachings
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  Speaker 1: of ancient wisdom, that while reality never changes, the form
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  Speaker 1: that it takes is ever-changing. What is man's place in
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  Speaker 1: the creative order? Man is a thinking center in mind,
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  Speaker 1: reproducing in a smaller scale all there is in the universe.
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  Speaker 1: Does this not make man's thought creative? In a certain
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  Speaker 1: sense it does. What we call creation is not making
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  Speaker 1: something out of nothing, but it is thought taking form.
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  Speaker 1: And as man thinks, and as thought must take form,
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  Speaker 1: then it must follow that man's thought must take form
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  Speaker 1: in mind and so become creative. What is man's thought?
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  Speaker 1: It is the activity of that something within that can say,
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  Speaker 1: I am. What is the difference between God and man?
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  Speaker 1: The very fact that man can say, I am, proves
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  Speaker 1: that he is. Since he is he must be made
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  Speaker 1: out of life and must be some part of all
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  Speaker 1: that there is. This being so, man must be a
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  Speaker 1: part of God's consciousness. The difference would be in degree only.
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  Speaker 1: He must be as much of life as he recognizes
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  Speaker 1: himself to be. Is all of man's thought creative? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all or none. If one thought produces, then all must.
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  Speaker 1: If this be true, how is it that man seems
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  Speaker 1: to be so limited? Because he has thought limitation, and
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are things and will always make the thing thought of.
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  Speaker 1: In reality the very fact that man's thought can limit
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  Speaker 1: him also proves that it could free him from all
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  Speaker 1: limitation by simply changing his thought. But why is man
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  Speaker 1: so made that he can think two ways? This is
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  Speaker 1: a question that can be answered only in one way.
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  Speaker 1: Unless a man can think as he wants to think
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  Speaker 1: he would not be a man at all but simply
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  Speaker 1: a piece of mechanism. Man is an individual and that
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  Speaker 1: means self-choice, backed by a power that will produce the
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  Speaker 1: thing chosen. In discovering himself man chooses many things, uses
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  Speaker 1: them and passes to a higher choice, ever ascending in
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: the scale of being. As fast as he chooses, he
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  Speaker 1: experiences that thing which he thinks about. What is evil?
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  Speaker 1: Evil is the result of a lack of clear seeing,
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  Speaker 1: based upon a belief in two powers, and limitation and
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  Speaker 1: what we call sin is the result of man's struggle
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  Speaker 1: to find himself. If this be true, why could we
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  Speaker 1: not at once begin to change our whole life by
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: first changing our thought? We could. We would not be
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: changing real substance, but we would be changing the form
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  Speaker 1: that it takes through our thought. All that we can
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: change is the form of thought through which experiences come
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  Speaker 1: to us. What is the limit of man's creative use
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  Speaker 1: of mind? Man is limited by nothing but his own thinking,
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: by his mental ability to conceive. What is meant by
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: mental conception? All things are produced by thought. The thing
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  Speaker 1: produced from mind is first formed in thought, thought molds
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  Speaker 1: mind into form. But do we not have to act?
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  Speaker 1: We cannot think without acting, an inactive body is the
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: result of an inactive mind. In using our creative powers,
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  Speaker 1: how far do we have to consider the conditions under
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: which we live? We do not have to consider them
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: at all. Conditions are the result, the effect, and not
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: the cause, we create them as fast as we think.
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  Speaker 1: How would a person start to change conditions? By first
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  Speaker 1: changing thought and by realizing that we are not dealing
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: with an illusion, but with the great reality. Then by
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: acting as though we already have what we think. How
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: long would it take to do this? As long as
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: it would take to let go of all negative thought
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: and embody all positive thought. This would depend entirely upon
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: the individual and his mental ability to control thought. What
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  Speaker 1: would hinder us the most? Ourselves. No one gives to
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: us but ourselves and no one takes from us but ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Can no one else help us? Only to a limited degree.
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  Speaker 1: While we may be helped by those who understand the law,
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: for a time, yet sooner or later we must ourselves
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: take the creative responsibility of our own lives. Others may
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: think for us for a few moments a day, but
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: we think for ourselves all the time. But does not
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: God help us? Yes, God helps all, but must do
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: it through law. All's love yet all's law. How should
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: we pray? By giving thanks that we already have that
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: thing that we pray for, by completely believing and by
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: never doubting. When ye pray believe that ye have received
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: and ye shall receive. We must be sure that in
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: no way shall we think, act or talk or read
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: about limitation. We must all be a law unto ourselves. Definitions. God.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: Infinite spirit, self-knowing mind, life, truth, intelligence, love, all cause
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: and all effect. That invisible power which makes all things
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: out of itself, by an inner action of its own
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: thought upon itself. The visible universe. The ideas of God
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: in expression, the body of God, expression of the divine mind.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: All visible life is an expression of an inner concept. Law.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: Mind in action, law is not cause, it is effect.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: It is intelligence operating. All law is universal. Vibration. Not intelligence,
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: but the result of intelligence, it follows cause. Thought. The
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: activity of mind. Man. A thinking center in mind. Creation.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: Thought becoming form. The immaculate conception. Sin. Lack of understanding. Righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual understanding. Sickness. Image of thought held in mind appearing
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: on the body. Health. The realization of perfect life. Poverty.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: Limited thought. Riches. The realization of our unity with life,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: which is limitless. Consciousness. The realization of the fact that
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: we are. Life. Consciousness of power and activity. Truth. That
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: which is. Realization. An inner thought process whereby we become
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: conscious of our unity with life. Absolute. Complete self-knowing. Cussation. God, spirit, life,
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: that which is. Intelligence. That which knows that it is. Unfoldment.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: The birth of ideas coming forth from mind. Illusion. Belief
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: in two powers. Soul. The inner creative life, the feminine, receptive, creative. Sense.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: Not an illusion, but the faculties through which we contact
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: life in its expression. Motion. The inner activity of life
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: producing manifestation. Effect. The result of inner motion. The word.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: The activity of thought. Faith. Positive mental activity. Fear. Negative
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: mental activity. Attraction. The drawing power of thought. Unity. One
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: mind flowing through all and in all. Objective. Life in
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: its outer form. Subjective. Life in its inner thought or form. Karma.
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: The law of cause and effect. The result of past
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: thought and action binding the ignorant and freeing the wise. Multiplicity.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: The bringing forth from the one of an infinite variety
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: of form, color and motion. Treatment. The mental and spiritual
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: activity of thought for a definite end. demonstration. The result
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: of correct thinking. Heaven. The atmosphere of correct thought. Hell.
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: The atmosphere of false thinking. Peace. Mind resting in the
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: realization that it is all. Poise. An inner calm which
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: never fears. Power. The result of the union of peace
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  Speaker 1: and poise. The end.