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CREATIVE MIND: Power of Thought, Universal Mind & Secret Law of Creation — Ernest S. Holmes · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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