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The forms and ceremonies of the church are all symbolical of interior processes.

As external forms they are nothing at all, and have no power in themselves. Annie Rix Militz

 All these years you've been taught to believe that before you can hope to succeed at something, you have to first feel as though you can. No! To succeed, you need only understand how failure is created, and then consciously refuse to cooperate with what has been defeating you from within. Guy Finley

"I am seeking my Good, and my Good is my God," is telling a simple truth. Emma Curtis Hopkins

"There is an _original creation, an original world, an invisible world_, which actually exists at this moment, which we are here discussing. It exists right now, but not to the world.

This invisible world that I’m talking about is one in which there is no strife, no competition, no worry, no strain, but a world of peace and understanding — something that is unlike the world you now inhabit.

Now this world is timeless. It has always existed. It is the original world. A happy, free, spiritual — truly spiritual — world.

But somewhere along the way, something happened. Something bad happened to human beings. And this original world was lost to them because they insisted on building their own world as suited their own false values, as suited their own wrong ideas about themselves, their vanity ideas.

And so having departed from the original true world, men and women began to build their own kind of a world, and their horror story began, and it has continued to this day. Now in this world, which you know a lot about, there is nothing but chaos and self-deception. Everyone pretending they know and no one does know." Vernon Linwood Howard

 

 “Love, whether it’s being applied to yourself or it’s being applied to somebody else, is a feeling that you have that causes you to want to take certain kinds of actions. And those actions, whether it’s for yourself or for someone else, are designed to help you in various ways.” Lazaris

Thus man is Spirit. 

If man, or all, is Spirit, then I am Spirit. 

If Spirit cannot be in poverty, I cannot be in poverty. 

If Spirit cannot be burdened, I cannot be burdened. 

If Spirit cannot be sick, I cannot be sick. 

All these are nothing to Spirit, therefore they are nothing to me. 

I am not deceived by any of them. 

This is the only religion which will work practically with the mind, and bring out the external forms in new combinations. 

It is a religion which teaches us to be grateful to Spirit for all the good that comes to us, and appreciate that all the evil that comes is by reason of our having imagined something against man or God, or the universe, which could not be possible at all. 

We worship Spirit in all forms, and let forms alone. 

We do not try to change them; they change themselves by our thoughts of Spirit. 

There is a law of setting aside appearances by Truth. 

We learn Truth, and we are masters of the law. Emma Curtis Hopkins

Why do you say, "I do not accuse myself of selfishness"? Because every person you see is the expression of your own traits of character. Emma Curtis Hopkins