My mind is a center of Divine operation.

 

~Judge Thomas Troward (1847–1916).

The Mind's Attainment ~ 1902 By Uriel Buchanan, a student of Swami Vivekenanda
A study of laws and methods for obtaining individual happiness, success and power through the silent force of thought.

 

Change water into wine!

 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. 

Rev. Harry Gaze

By his own report, Rev. Harry Gaze began lecturing on Practical Christianity in 1898, and through the years served in many Divine Science pulpits.  These included the Church of the Healing Christ in New York City after W. John Murray and before Emmet Fox, as well as the First Church of Divine Science in Denver in the mid-1940's before Irwin Gregg succeeded him.  Rev. Gaze wrote two well-known biographies of

The Knower within me guides ME.

God is Eternal Light, which is Eternal Life, and the more we realize that we ourselves are made of this Eternal Light, both in Soul and Body, the more we shall find God as a continual source of Light and Life in ourselves. This is why Jesus said,

First Find God in Yourself.

Remember Christ’s words,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is within you,”
 

The Success Quadrant

The telephone rang. J.R. answered.
"Hello?"
"Hello, is J.R. available?"
"Speaking."
"Mr. R., we've got a project for you. We're ready to expand internationally and we need some help."
"I'm not interested. I'm semi-retired - you know, looking for the next exotic beach."
"We'll make it worth your while Mr. R. We'll add millions to your fortune."
"OK, I'm listening."

It was a call that was worth millions. And it happened to Jim Rohn. His first thought afterwards was, "Isn't it interesting that they called me?" His second thought was, "Of course they'd call me. Who else would they call? I can get the job done." At age 25, good fortune came his way. He met a mentor named Earl Shoaff, who was a unique and very successful man. Shoaff was the man who told Jim Rohn the secret.

The Success Quadrant – Simple Four Steps Formula for TOTAL Success
Dr.J.B Jones

COMPLETENESS

A point on which students of mental science often fail to lay sufficient stress is the completeness of man—not a completeness to be attained hereafter, but here and now. We have been so accustomed to have the imperfection of man drummed into us in books, sermons, and hymns, and above all in a mistaken interpretation of the Bible, that at first the idea of his completeness altogether staggers us. Yet until we see this we must remain shut out from the highest and best that mental science has to offer, from a thorough understanding of its philosophy, and from its greatest practical achievements.

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To do any work successfully you must believe yourself to be a whole man in respect of it. The completed work is the outward image of a corresponding completeness in yourself. And if this is true in respect of one work it is true of all; the difference in the importance of the work does not matter; we cannot successfully attempt any work until, for some reason or other, we believe ourselves able to accomplish it; in other words, until we believe that none of the conditions for its completion is wanting in us, and that we are therefore complete in respect of it. Our recognition of our completeness is thus the measure of what we are able to do, and hence the great importance of knowing the fact of our own completeness. …

Be Here Now

A friend is a gift you give yourself. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you past or future trip often?  The moment you notice you are past or future tripping:

1. Breathe

2. See what is in front of you.

3. Feel the sensations in your body.

4. Say, ‘I’m back!” Josh Pais

These are the two golden rules regarding concentration

… there is one safe general principle to be gained from what has already been said about causes and conditions,

Troward on Higher Thought, New Thought and Mental Science

WHAT IS HIGHER THOUGHT?

Money, Opulence, IAM from Troward

The understanding which alone gives value to knowledge is the understanding that, when we employ the formula "I am, therefore I can, therefore I will," the "I AM" with which the series starts is a being who, so to speak, has his head in heaven and his feet upon the earth, a perfect unity, and with a range of ideas far transcending the little ideas which are limited by the requirements of a day or an hour. On the other hand, the requirements of the day and the hour are real while they last, and since the manifested life can be lived only in the moment that now is, whether it be to-day or ten thousand years hence, our need is to harmonize the life of expression with the life of purpose, and by realizing in ourselves the source of the highest purposes to realize also the life of the fullest expression.

This is the meaning of prayer. Prayer

The Ultimate Truth

1. God is Love. Man, having the understanding of God, speaks the Word of Power.

2. Man gives utterance to God.

3. The Father is Equilibrium. The Son is Concentration of the same Spirit. The Spirit is Projection.

Study carefully St. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 12.

Jesus uttered those golden words to teach mankind that like does attract like, invariably and infallibly. That passage states the law of attraction* at its best, including an unshakable faith, visualizing by means of which one HAS spiritually, or in the mind, even that which is sought, and which serves as a magnet of infinite power to draw to one the glad fulfillment in form, or physical reality, provided only one also WORKS confidently and happily to carry out the ideas the Father gives one, through intuition, as steps in the path to the shining goal. Now let us directly quote the passage, then strip it bare of all the "mystery" so many claim it contains for them. Unfortunately, to many that verse remains a riddle for life unless they are sufficiently interested to seek until they find the key to its solution. The passage reads: "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath." The big question is: "For whosoever hath" what? Does it mean the one who has wealth of money, or property, or other earthly possessions? No, although the one who has the thing that is meant is certain to acquire financial independence and retain it. It means simply that "whosoever hath" the consciousness of the Father within, who has that exalted awareness as an abiding conviction, who has implicit faith in it, and who actively carries on in the work that one does, whatever it may be, the ideas of Life, Love, Beauty and Harmony the Father gives that one in an unending stream, to that one will be given all he may ever require, and to spare. But the person who "hath not" the high consciousness is subject to all the sorrows, lacks and other in-harmonies circumstances and conditions can bring to bear upon him, even to the point of losing all he has gained through habitual employment of secondary causation. . . for since he has not the awareness he is, or shall be, "under the rule of an iron destiny," to quote Troward, and dwells in anxiety and fear, knowing not that "the eternal God is our refuge and a very present help in trouble." HOW TO LIVE LIFE AND LOVE IT by Genevieve Behrend
*Notice how she did NOT capitalize law of attraction.

MARK THEM WELL! USE THEM! They are TRUTH! THEY WORK!

What is the very first step on the high road to success?

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!

The First Awakening

Thomas Troward wrote “The Years Of 1914 To 1923 In Bible Prophecy (1915)” and in it he stated:

“In this pamphlet I have endeavoured to put some of the most salient points into the shortest possible form for readers unacquainted with the subject, but further study will show that the prophetic system here briefly sketched is of much greater extent and permeates the whole Bible. To any who wish for a more detailed knowledge of the subject I would recommend the book to which I am mainly indebted for the substance of these pages, “The Approaching End of the Age,'' by Grattan Gruinness, but as it was written some thirty-five years ago, I cannot say whether it is now obtainable.”

The Approaching End of the Age: Viewed in the Light of History, Prophecy, and Science (1879) by Henry Grattan Guinness

In Touch With The Sub-Conscious Mind.

Rudyard Kipling {also Rudyard Kipling} tells us in his story of "Kim" how the boy used at times to lose his sense of personality by repeating to himself the question, Who is Kim? Gradually his personality would seem to fade and he would experience a feeling of passing into a grander and a wider life, in which the boy Kim was unknown, while his own conscious individuality remained, only exalted and expanded to an inconceivable extent; and in Tennyson's life by his son we are told that at times the poet had a similar experience[See previous reference >> WedFeb11]. We come into touch with the absolute exactly in proportion as we withdraw ourselves from the relative: they vary inversely to each other.

Illusion or Reality

Hippolyte Baraduc (1850–1909) was a French physician and parapsychologist. He is most notable for his claim that a misty form leaves the human body at the moment of death which he believed was evidence for the soul.

In France, Dr Hippolyte Baraduc and Louis Darget[did experiments in 1895 on thought photography and he produced colour photos on glass, mainly showing human fingerprints with aura forms.] attempted to photograph thoughts or psychic energy (‘the light of the soul’) simply by placing foreheads or fingers on a photographic plate. Despite refutations by experts, who argued that the results claimed by the ‘effluvists’ were merely technical accidents, these experiments continued throughout the 20th century.

The Golden Key to Prayer

by Emmet Fox

"Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty." -- Emmet Fox

Prayer will enable you, sooner or later, to get yourself, or anyone else, out of any difficulty on the face of the earth. It is the Golden Key to harmony and happiness.

To those who have no acquaintance with the mightiest power in existence, this may appear to be a rash claim, but it needs only a fair trial to prove that, without a shadow of doubt, it is a just one. You need take no one's word for it, and you should not. Simply try it for yourself, and see.

God is omnipotent, and man is His image and likeness, and has dominion over all things. This is the inspired teaching, and it is intended to be taken literally, at its face value. Man means every man, and so the ability to draw on this power is not the special prerogative of the mystic or the saint, as is so often supposed, or even of the highly trained practitioner.

Whoever you are, wherever you may be, the Golden Key to harmony is in your hand now. This is because in scientific prayer it is God who works, and not you, and so your particular limitations or weaknesses are of no account in the process. You are only the channel through which the divine action takes place, and your treatment will really be just the getting of yourself out of the way. Beginners often get startling results at the first time of trying, for all that is absolutely essential is to have an open mind, and sufficient faith to try the experiment. Apart from that, you may hold any views on religion, or none.

As for the actual method of working, like all fundamental things, it is simplicity itself. All that you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead. This is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will presently disappear. It makes no difference what kind of trouble it is. It may be a big thing or a little thing; it may concern health, finance, a lawsuit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable; but whatever it is, just stop thinking about it, and think of God instead -- that is all you have to do.

The thing could not be simpler, could it? God Himself could scarcely have made it simpler, and yet it never fails to work when given a fair trial.

Do not try to form a picture of God, which is impossible. Work by rehearsing anything or everything that you know about God. God is Wisdom, Truth, inconceivable Love. God is present everywhere; has infinite power; knows everything; and so on. It matters not how well you may think you understand these things; go over them repeatedly.

But you must stop thinking of the trouble, whatever it is. The rule is to think about God, and if you are thinking about your difficulty you are not thinking about God. To be continually glancing over your shoulder, as it were, in order to see how matters are progressing, is fatal, because that is thinking of the trouble, and you must think of God, and of nothing else. Your object is to drive the thought of the difficulty right out of your consciousness, for a few moments at least, substituting for it the thought of God.

This is the crux of the whole thing. If you can become so absorbed in this consideration of the spiritual world that you really forget for a while all about the trouble concerning which you began to pray, you will presently find that you are safely and comfortably out of your difficulty -- that your demonstration is made.

In order to "Golden Key" a troublesome person or a difficult situation, think, "Now I am going to 'Golden Key' John, or Mary, or that threatened danger"; then proceed to drive all thought of John, or Mary, or the danger right out of your mind, replacing it by the thought of God.

By working in this way about a person, you are not seeking to influence his conduct in any way, except that you prevent him from injuring or annoying you, and you do him nothing but good. Thereafter he is certain to be in some degree a better, wiser, and more spiritual person, just because you have "Golden Keyed" him. A pending lawsuit or other difficulty would probably fade out harmlessly without coming to a crisis, justice being done to all parties concerned.
If you find that you can do this very quickly, you may repeat the operation several times a day with intervals between. Be sure, however, each time you have done it, that you drop all thought of the matter until the next time. This is important.
We have said that the Golden Key is simple, and so it is, but, of course, it is not always easy to turn. If you are very frightened or worried it may be difficult, at first, to get your thoughts away from material things. But by constantly repeating some statement of absolute Truth that appeals to you, such as There is no power but God, or I am the child of God, filled and surrounded by the perfect peace of God, or God is love, or God is guiding me now, or, perhaps best and simplest of all, just God is with me -- however mechanical or dead it may seem at first -- you will soon find that the treatment has begun to "take," and that your mind is clearing. Do not struggle violently; be quiet but insistent. Each time that you find your attention wandering, just switch it straight back to God.
Do not try to think out in advance what the solution of your difficulty will probably turn out to be. This is technically called "outlining," and will only delay the demonstration. Leave the question of ways and means strictly to God. You want to get out of your difficulty -- that is sufficient. You do your half, and God will never fail to do His.

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Awakening we begin to see things from the Inside Out, so to speak, and before we ask the prayer is answered, and we now know how to pray as we ought, because we recognize the Truth: there is nothing to heal, change, or make right, for all is already finished, done, perfect in Reality. Come away from the illusion that things are either this way or that way in a world of opposites, or opposition. Come into the Reality of a Creation declared very good. Realize that nothing went astray or awry except our thinking!
GOD in a Box
by Jane Woodward

The oneness and allness of God is self-evidently the fact of this Awareness which has forever been alone and All to everyone. Yes, the key is the singleness and all-inclusiveness of this very Awareness. This Awareness of existence, that is right here, right now, is divine! It is God's Awareness, not 'mine'.

A man fraught with fear and consternation came to the author with a terrible tale of tribulation. He wanted someone to do something about all his troubles. After a few moments of simple, light-hearted conversation relative to the Reality that is rather than the sorrow that seems, the man said, “I see! I understand! God is all that is here. God is this very Awareness I am.” He left and fearlessly set about doing all that was necessary to appear happy and prosperous. Many months later he told me that nothing had upset his equanimity since the day of that conversation. 2+2=Reality By William Samuel

Things will disappear only as man changes in consciousness. Deny it if you will, it still remains a fact that consciousness is the only reality and things but mirror that which you are in consciousness. So the heavenly state you are seeking will be found only in consciousness, for the kingdom of heaven is within you. As the will of heaven is ever done on earth you are today living in the heaven that you have established within you. For here on this very earth your heaven reveals itself. The kingdom of heaven really is at hand. NOW is the accepted time. So create a new heaven, enter into a new state of consciousness and a new earth will appear.

AT YOUR COMMAND
By Neville
1939

Reader, your 'salvation' is simple and easy. It is to come out and be separate from Bill, Mary or whatever you call yourself. It is to cease identifying as an enslaver of God, as a possessor of Infinite Awareness. It is to start right now and identify correctly as Awareness itself. There is no yourself, myself or any other self but God. God is being this Awareness. This is who and what you are. You are not a miserable, suffering mortal, so you can stop acting like one. God, Perfection Itself, is being 'you.'

I have known those who have seen and understood this Light instantaneously. Their problems,  consternations and fears were shed as quickly and easily as one takes off his coat. These were the ones who were humbly ready, willing and eager to let God be all that God already is, leaving no place for an ego that puffs itself up and claims to have an awareness of its own. 2+2=Reality By William Samuel

 I was listening to a tape from Robin Duncan ( www.FreePrayerBook.com ) yesterday and although she was talking about ACIM it was very similar to The Golden Key of Prayer.

Pray, focus on what God means to you and go on with yur life with the faithful expectancy of it’s fruitation. Can’t pay a bill? , Pray, make out the check, focus on God and go on out about your business.

Ervin Seale mentioned once about Miss Eleanor Mel staying at the Waldorf during a convention without any money. She got up Sunday, went down to check out, asked for her mail, there was a letter with $70 in it. She promptly paid her bill and left. Seale said neither he nor Emmet Fox ever went anywhere unless they had the money to pay the bill.

 

Thomas Troward's view of this was "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you." "The Kingdom of Heaven is within vou." - first find God in yourself and you will find Him everywhere else," It is a case of "you press the button- and we do the rest."