Chapter VII

Thursday morning the sun rose clear and beautiful but, instead of pushing on as we had expected, we were told that we would wait where we were until the trails had dried and  the rivers had receded so we could proceed more comfortably. We were all fearful lest   our provisions should be exhausted and one of our party voiced this fear. Emil, who had charge of the whole outfit, came to us and said, “You need not fear. Does not God take care of all His creatures, both great and small, and are we not His creatures? You will see that here I have a few kernels of corn or corn seed. I will plant them. By this act I have definitely said that I want corn. I have formed corn in my mind. I have fulfilled the law and in due season it will come forth. Is it necessary for us to await the long, arduous process that Nature in her slow growth and unfoldment will take in order to grow corn? If so, we would be obliged to wait a long, hard time to obtain it. Why not use a higher or more perfect law, given us by the Father, to produce it? All that is required is to become quiet and visualize or idealize corn and we have corn cured, ready for use. If you doubt it, you can gather it, grind it into meal, then make it into bread.” There before us was corn grown and cured so that we did gather it, and grind it, and afterwards made it into bread.

Then Emil went on to say, “This you have seen and believe but why not use a more  perfect law and bring forth a more perfect thing or exactly what you want—bread. You will see by using this more perfect, or as you would say, more subtle law, I am able to bring forth exactly what I need—bread.” And as we stood there spellbound a large loaf of bread was in his hands, nor did the supply stop until there were forty loaves upon the   table before us, placed there apparently by Emil himself. He remarked, “You see there is sufficient for all; if not sufficient, more can be supplied until there is enough and to  spare.” We all ate the bread and pronounced it good.

Emil continued, “When Jesus at Galilee asked Philip, `Whence shall we buy bread?’ He did this to try him, for within Himself He knew full well there was no necessity to buy   the bread needed to feed the assembled multitude nor to secure it through the material market then in existence. He saw the opportunity to prove to His disciples the power of bread leavened or increased by the Spirit. How often man in the mortal concept thinks as did Philip! He was calculating, as human consciousness is calculating today, from the visible supply on hand—thinking he had only so much bread or so much supply or so much money with which to buy. Jesus recognized that the one in Christ Consciousness knows no limitation. He then, in Christ Consciousness, looked to God as the source and creator of all and gave thanks for the power and substance right at hand to fill every want. He then broke and distributed, through His disciples, to those in outer need until the need was supplied and there remained twelve baskets over. Jesus never depended on the over- supply of another to fill His need nor the need of another; but He taught that our supply is right at hand in Universal Substance where all supply exists and all we need do is to   create it or bring it forth. Just so when Elisha multiplied the widow’s oil. He did not apply to someone having an over-abundance of oil, for had he done this the supply would have been limited. He contacted the Universal and the only limit to the supply was that all the vessels were filled. The supply could have flowed on until this day had there been vessels to receive it.

“This is not hypnotism. None of you feel that you are in any way under a hypnotic spell. Let me say that the only hypnotism is the selfhypnotism of believing that each and every one can not do the perfect works of God, and create the desired condition or thing. For is not the need itself the desire to create? Instead of unfolding and creating as God wills us  to create, you fold up in your little shells and say, `I can’t,’ and you hypnotize yourselves into actually believing that you are separate entities apart from God. You simply fall   short of your perfect creation or expression. You do not let God express perfectly through you as it is His desire to do. Did not Jesus the Great Master say, `The works that I do, ye shall do also, and greater works than these shall ye do’? Was it not Jesus’ true mission   here on earth to show that we, as sons of God, or man in his true estate, can create as perfectly and as harmoniously as God does? When Jesus commanded the blind man to bathe his eyes in the pool of Siloam, was not this intended to open the eyes of all? All were to see that Jesus was sent by the Father to show us that the Father intended us to create exactly as He creates; all are to do the perfect work as Jesus did by recognizing the Christ in himself and in all.

“I can go one step further. This loaf I just received and held in my hand is consumed as though burned by fire. What happened? I misused the perfect law that brought forth my conception and consumed that which I brought forth, because of my misuse or not using rightly or righteously, the perfect law which is as exact as music or mathematics or any other so-called natural law. If I persisted in the misuse of the perfect law, it would consume not only that which I create but would consume me, the creator.

“Is the bread really destroyed? We will admit the form is changed for, in place of the loaf, we have a small amount of dust or ashes. Has it not in reality been returned to the Universal Substance from which it sprang? Is it not now in unmanifest form, waiting to   be brought again into manifestation? Is this not the way with all forms that go from our sight either by fire or decay or in any other way? Do they not return to the Universal Substance—God—from which they sprang? Is this not the meaning of `What descends from heaven must ascend into heaven’?

“A short time ago you saw ice formed, without any apparent cause, as you perhaps think  of it. Let me say that that is the same as creating the bread. I can use the law to obtain ice as well as bread, just as long as I use either as a benefit to mankind, or as long as I am working in living accord with the law, or expressing as God wishes all to express. It is good for all to make bread, or ice, or any and all things desired; and all must press on to the stage at which they can do these things. Can you not see that by using the highest law, the absolute law of God, you may bring forth that which you need or conceive in mind as your highest idea and thus please God more fully by manifesting more fully, knowing as Jesus did that we are perfect Sons of God?

“Does not this suggest freedom from commercial bondage as well as all other bondage?  As I see it, the commercial bondage will, in a few years, become the greatest bondage of all. If it goes on at the rate it is now progressing, it will dominate man, soul and body, and it cannot do otherwise than consume itself and those that are interested in it. There is no question but that the first inception of commercialism was on a high spiritual plane, but materialism was allowed to creep in until the very power used to create is the power that will consume; just as the very power used to create will always consume if not used rightly. Is not the pressing of commercialism and limitations upon us crowding us on to see that we must come up over, or overcome, these conditions? Is not this done by simply realizing that we are to do the perfect works of God, to raise our consciousness to the Christ Consciousness? Is not this what Jesus taught us here on earth? Does not His whole life exemplify this?

“My dear brothers, do you not see that in the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God? At this time, everything to be formed later was in unmanifest form in the Universal Mind Substance—or as expressed by some, in chaos. This word in the original was actuality. This word, chaos, is misinterpreted to mean a turbulent or warring state, instead of the deep, spiritual state of actuality, always awaiting a definite, creative, spoken word through which it can spring forth into manifest form.

“When God Principle desired to bring forth the world out of Universal Mind Substance, God was quiet and contemplative. In other words, God saw an ideal world; He held in mind that substance of which the world was to be formed a sufficient time to lower its vibration; then He spoke the Word and the world was formed—or, as we might say, God visualized a mental pattern or mold into which could flow the substance needed to make the world and it came forth a perfect form, built upon the pattern which was held in consciousness.

“All these things might have been thought of by God, Infinite Power. He might have wished during an indefinite time that they were formed and made visible. Had not the definite spoken word been put forth into the formless ether, nothing would have been created or brought forth into visible form. In order to establish in visible results the thought and desires of even an Infinite Omnipotent Creator and bring orderly forms out  of actuality, it took the definite, positive `Let there be.’ So must we take the definite step.

“God is holding the ideal perfect world in mind in every detail and it is bound to come forth as a heaven or perfect home where all His children, all His creatures, and all His creations may dwell in peace and harmony. This is the perfect world that God saw in the beginning and the one He is thinking into existence right now, and the time of its manifestation lies in our acceptance of it. When we can come to the one place and know that we are all one, one man, and know that we are all members of God’s body as much as one member of our body is a part of the whole body, then we are in, and of, God’s kingdom, heaven here on earth, now.

“To make this manifest, realize that there is nothing material in heaven. All is spiritual. Realize that heaven is a perfect state of consciousness, a perfect world here on earth now, and all we need to do is to accept it. It is here all about us, waiting for us to open the inner eye. Through that eye our bodies shall be made light, the light which is neither of the sun nor moon but of the Father; and the Father is right here in the very innermost part of our being. We must sufficiently realize that there is nothing material, that all is spiritual.

Then we must think of that wonderful God-given spiritual world which is right here now if we can realize it.

“Do you not see that God created all in this way? Did not God first become quiet and contemplative and see the light? Then He said, `Let there be light,’ and it was so. In the same way He said, `Let there be a firmament,’ and it was so; and likewise with other creations, He held each form or ideal steadfast in consciousness, then spoke the word,  and the ideal was brought forth. Just so with man. God said, `Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness and give him dominion over all.’ God, all good, created all things good; man the greatest and last, with full dominion over all. Then man saw only good, and all was good until man separated himself from God and saw duality, or two. Then he, by his thought, created two, one good and the other the opposite; for if there were two, they would be opposite—good and evil. Thus evil came through man’s perfect power to express or bring forth that which he gazed upon. If man had not seen evil, evil would have been given no power of expression. Only the good would have been expressed and we would be as perfect as God sees us today. Would not heaven always have been on earth as God sees it and as we must all see it to make it manifest? Jesus had a perfect right to say that He came from heaven; for did not all come from heaven, the great Universal Mind Substance?

“Since man was created in the image and likeness of God, did not God give man the  power to create exactly as He creates? And does not God expect man to use that power as freely as He uses it—and in exactly the same way? By first perceiving the need; then conceiving the good, the ideal, with which to fill the mold that we hold in consciousness and which is to be filled from the Universal Mind Substance; then sending forth the word that it is filled; that it is so, and it is good.

“Jesus, when He was crucified, gave His flesh, the outer, what we see of the body, to  prove that there is really a deeper or spiritual body; and it is this spiritual body that He manifested when He came forth from the tomb. This is the body of which He spoke when He said, `Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.’ He did this to show us  we have the same spiritual body and that we can do all the works He did. There is no question that if Jesus had wished to do so, He could have saved Himself. There is no  doubt but that He saw there was a great change taking place in His body. He also saw that those about Him were not able to see that they also could bring forth the spiritual body, as He was attempting to have them see. They still looked to the personal and He saw that if He brought forth the spiritual body without some decided change, the people would not   be able to discern between the material and the spiritual; so He adopted the way of the crucifixion to bring about the change.

“Truly is not this the Christ in man, which the Great Master, Jesus, whom we all love and reverence, came to show? Did He not unfold His life here on earth to show us the perfect way to God? Can we do other than love this perfect ideal way when we once see it, whether it be planting seed, making bread, or doing the million and one things necessary to human existence? Are not these acts mere lessons carrying us on to our unfoldment?

Some day we are to realize that we are truly Sons of God, not servants; that as Sons we can and do have all that the Father has and that we can use it just as freely as our Father does.

“I admit this takes a mighty faith at first; one that usually must be taken step by step and must be practiced faithfully like music or mathematics, until we come to the place of knowing. Then we are grandly, beautifully free. Could there be a better, truer example of this life than that of Jesus? Can you not recognize the power that is in His name, Jesus,  the Christ made manifest, or God manifesting through the flesh man? Jesus came to the place where He relied wholly upon His deep knowledge or understanding of God and this is how He did His mighty works. He did not rely upon His own will power or upon  strong, concentrated thoughts. Neither must we rely upon our own will power nor strong, concentrated thoughts, but upon the will of God. `’Tis not my will, but Thine, O God, be done.’ Will to do the will of God. Do you not think that Jesus willed in all things to do the will of God or to do what God willed Him to do?

“You will note that very often Jesus is referred to as going into a high mountain. Whether He physically ascended a high mountain or not, I do not know. This I do know, that we must all ascend to the heights, the very highest in consciousness to receive our illumination. This height means the very top of the head and there, if the faculty is not developed, we must develop it by spiritual thoughts. Then from the heart, the love center, we must let love flow forth to balance all and when this is done the Christ is revealed.

The son of man perceives that he is the Son of God, the only begotten Son, in whom the Father is well pleased. Then with constant love, we must realize this for all.

“Just stop and think deeply for a moment and realize the countless number of the grains   of sand of the seashore; the countless number of drops of water that go to make up the waters of the earth; the countless number of life forms in the waters of the earth. Then realize the countless number of rock particles that are contained in the whole earth; the countless number of trees, plants, flowers, and shrubs upon the earth; the countless  number of forms of animal life upon the earth. Realize that all are the outpicturing of the ideal held in the great universal mind of God; that they all contain the one life, the life of God. Then think of the countless number of souls born upon this earth. Then realize that each soul is a perfect outpictured ideal image of God as God sees Himself; that each soul  is given the same power, expression, and dominion over all that God Himself has. Do you not think that God wills or wishes man to unfold these God-like or God-given qualities  and to do the works that God does through the inheritance given man by the Father, the one great, Universal Mind in all, through all, and above all? Then realize that each person is an expression or pressing out (from the unseen, the Spirit) into visible form, a form through which God loves to express. When we can realize and accept this, we can truly  say as Jesus did, `Behold a Christ is here.’ It is in this way that He attained His mastery over the worldly or flesh self. He recognized, claimed, and accepted His divinity, then lived the life just as we must do.”

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