Let this be your daily prayer; write it in your heart: “God is the source of my supply. That supply is my supply now. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my talents freely, and I am wonderfully, divinely compensated. Thank you, Father!” Murphy, Joseph. How to Attract Money (p. 33). GENERAL PRESS.
“The Divine Man, which Jesus brought forth, must be born into the consciousness of the Higher Self, or the Birth of Christ,” Charles Fillmore wrote in “Christmas,” published in the December 1919 issue of Unity magazine.
The ringing of Christmas chimes ushers in another joyful season, during which reciprocal love finds its most copious overflow. Every living principle has a rhythmical movement, for the law of action and reaction is universal. As we slowly wind up the spiral of human ascent it is, therefore, normal to find recurring pulsations of unusual strength. Like the floods of spring time, these accentuated hours represent the great periodic rise of human interest and affection, the mingled currents of which refresh and enrich human life and experience. There are brought to the front those diviner faculties in man, which in the ordinary stress of daily routine are latent, or at least comparatively inactive. The exuberant spirit of such a season is a temporary object lesson of a coming steady and continual state of consciousness toward which, through moral and spiritual evolution, the world is tending.
Outside of and beyond the inspired historic associations connected with this anniversary, it is especially profitable to observe it on account of the exercise it gives to a soul-force of the highest and divinest quality. The principle which dwells back of the innumerable Christmas activities, many of which may seem trivial and unworthy, is that which alone will finally assure the salvation of the world.
It is clear from the foregoing that it is extremely difficult to characterise the therapeutic experience so that it shall seem real to one who has not already participated in it. Nearly always when such descriptions are given there are those who say that for them there is much that is intangible. Thus must it be until one has put the principle to the test and verified the method. The missing element is the empirical factor, the peculiar quality of the experience. One should not expect to have this imparted. The description is of the letter; it is the experience that is spiritual. All that a description can hope to achieve is to convey hints, as one might poetically set forth one’s inmost sentiment respecting “the everlasting realities of religion.” Those realities may possess great intellectual value, and to this extent be subject to the most precise analysis. But their spiritual values are essentially matters of experience: one must enter the holy of holies and adore in order to know them. Probably in the majority of cases the method is first acquired by the aid of a mental process; that is, the experimenter carries on a sort of argument, or series of affirmations, with the general ideal of health in view.
Here,
for example, is an outline statement of such a method, from the lecture notes
already referred to in Chapter V.
After a few preliminary explanations, the exposition begins
with the supposition that the healer is seated by the patient, the latter
receptive, the former filled with the consciousness of “the truth of the
patient’s being”; and continues as follows: “Now suppose you realise that God
is everywhere, therefore that He fills this room, surrounds the patient, even
fills him without his knowing it. Then go on from that point to realise what
God would be and feel in the patient’s place—calm, without fear. Therefore,
think of the patient as losing his fear, serene and at peace....God is perfect
health, therefore the patient is feeling the healing effect of His presence in
every part of his being. God is perfect wisdom and action in every way,
therefore the patient is yielding to the better way, to the wisdom that is
coming in as a part of himself. Regard the patient as seeing for himself
wherein he is weak and unwise. See him realising the better way of perfect
wisdom, now coming into consciousness as his own thought of improvement. See
this especially in so far as you may have learned wherein the patient has
caused his trouble by unwisdom“
Another way of thinking:
“The capacity of thought-reading is the common extent of
mesmerism. Clairvoyance is very rare, and can be easily tested by blindfolding
the subject and giving him a book to read. If he can read without seeing, that
is conclusive evidence that he has independent sight. This state is of very
short duration. They then come into that state where they are governed by
surrounding minds.” ~ PP Quimby
Health and the Inner Life Horatio W. Dresser
Dass was personally and professionally associated with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs (including LSD).
To speak of hearing the Holy Spirit is really a metaphor, just as it is to speak of Him as being God's Voice. The Holy Spirit communicates to us through our minds, and He will use any means or vehicle that we can accept. Thus, it can be what we call intuition, imagination, a sudden thought or insight, a dream, a feeling of words or thoughts coming to us that we "hear" and know are not our own. He is not fussy; He will use anything we give Him. http://www.miraclestudies.net/50Princ_1b.html
Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.
The Bible says, "Ask in the name of
Jesus Christ." It means that in remembering Jesus you are remembering
God. The whole relationship of the Son
to the Father lies in him. His part in
the Sonship is also yours, and his completed learning guarantees your own
success. Remember his promises, and ask
yourself honestly whether it is likely that he will fail to keep them. ACIM
The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered, and
this is indeed true. The very fact that the
Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. Yet it is equally certain that no response
given by Him will ever be one that would increase fear. It is possible that His answer will not be
heard. It is impossible, however, that
it will be lost. ACIM
“Do not ask me to remove your fear,
These are the lessons God would have you learn. His Will reflects them all, and they reflect His loving kindness to the Son He loves. Each lesson has a central thought, the same in all of them. The form alone is changed, with different circumstances and events; with different characters and different themes, apparent but not real. They are the same in fundamental content. It is this:
Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again” (T-31.VIII. 3:1‑2).
You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. [1 ] If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and [2] if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God's lesson, and not your own (T-14.XI.5:1-2).
The Only Thing We Have To Handle
Thought, like the blossom of the rose or tree, contains all the elements of the tree or rose. Now as the law of vegetation governs the tree or rose, so the law of mind acts upon the idea or spiritual tree, known by the name of good or evil. Now although this tree differs from all other trees in the garden of man, it cannot be detected except by its fruits, and as the fruits appear pleasant to the eye of the mind and are supposed to make men happy, it is cultivated without knowing the peculiar properties it contains.
Reverend Doctor Elouise Oliver, is a transformational life coach, motivational speaker, prayer warrior, teacher and Minister Emeritus of East Bay Church of Religious Science.
Following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the Reverend Elouise Oliver admonished the mournful and weeping congregation of the East Bay Church of Religious Science not to divide up humanity into victims and terrorists.
Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say "God is," and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is.
He's been putting out fires for 75 years - but do you know his name?
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” Actually, the whole preamble is very, very lovely. The Constitution, I think, is 70 or 80 pages, but the preamble is very nice, emphasizing in its own words—not the words the Course might use—the oneness of all people and the need not to see differences or to make the differences into something significant and use them as a justification for conflict and war. Again, it’s a very, very lovely preamble, and that opening statement is particularly nice.
The Thought of God surrounds your little kingdom, waiting at the barrier you built to come inside and shine upon the barren ground. See how life springs up everywhere! The desert becomes a garden, green and deep and quiet, offering rest to those who lost their way and wander in the dust. Give them a place of refuge, prepared by love for them where once a desert was. And everyone you welcome will bring love with him from Heaven for you. … And under its beneficence your little garden will expand, and reach out to everyone who thirsts for living water, but has grown too weary to go on alone (T-18.VIII.9:1-5,8).
“The world is not in need of a new religion, nor is the world in need of a new philosophy: What the world needs is healing and regeneration. The world needs people who, through devotion to God, are so filled with the Spirit that they can be instruments through which healings take place, because healing is important to everybody.” — JOEL S. GOLDSMITH
