A way to get closer to God.

The very best way to completely sublimate your human self, your sense self with all of its limitations, into the INFINITE is to establish within yourself a PERSONAL INTIMACY WITH GOD!

(1) Mentally go deep within your inmost self, your own Divine inmost, and ask yourself:

"What DOES God really mean to me?"

"What must the Divine Nature in me be like?"

(2) Once you have formed a definite and positive conclusion on these points, try to reproduce this same feeling all through your whole being. KEEP TRYING, and you will succeed in doing it. It is worth the effort required, a million times over.

(3) Do NOT let yourself be discouraged with this practice if you do not seem to get immediate results. Remember always that "it is the intention that counts; it is the intention which registers on the reproductive disk of Creative Life."

(4) Another powerful help is to diligently use the affirmation:

"My mind IS a center of DIVINE operation. The divine operation is ALWAYS for EXPANSION and fuller EXPRESSION; and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely NEW, not included in past experience though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce NEW conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before."

The Lord's Prayer is also an excellent aid.

(5) Try, try, try with all of your concentrated purpose to LIVE HOURLY in the FEELING of the affirmation, or the prayer. Do NOT let yourself slip and fall by indulgence in what you may call "justifiable impatience" for there is no such thing. Anger, or jealousy, or fear, and all like things, will cause you to slip also, for these things are unlike your idea of God, or of God's thought.

The LAW OF LIFE IS: TO CHANGE AN EFFECT THE CAUSE MUST BE CHANGED FIRST. CAUSE LEADS; EFFECTS FOLLOW! THOUGHT IS THE CAUSE; CONDITIONS ARE THE EFFECTS!

Many people who seem to have a very good idea of Christian Science, Divine Science, Unity, etc., try very hard for more money, better health, higher social position. Yet they do not seem to get far. Why?

The whole secret is this:

We MUST know exactly WHO we are, WHAT we are and WHY we are!

Knowing this, our contact with the SOURCE OF ALL GOOD is never interrupted. It is our task to take care of the INNER things; and if we do, the outer things SHALL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. THEN SHALL WE GO FORWARD, AND ONLY FORWARD, HAPPILY, HARMONIOUSLY, SERENELY ACCOMPLISHING ANY AND ALL GOOD THINGS THAT WE MAY WISH! Troward / Behrend