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.

 

Think outside the box!

Come up hither and realize that there is only ONE. As I look at you I do not speak to the dress you wear, for I know that at the end of your day, that garment that you are wearing will drop into a hamper and you will be left standing. In just the same way, I do not speak to your outer form-body and assume that that is YOU. At the end of ‘your day’ of thinking you are a human being, in the day of the Lord, you will drop that form-body as your identity and the True You will still be standing, still aware, still conscious, and alive as Life Itself, and you will still be here.

Find time this weekend to turn off your phone, calm your nerves, cast your cares on the Lord, and meditate in the field of His faithfulness.

Isaac was an outdoorsman who worked the fields during the day; but he returned there in the evenings for another kind of work -- the mental work of meditation. Imagine his world. No electricity or electric lights, no radios or headsets, no cell phones or engine noises. With the vault of heaven above him, Isaac took time for nocturnal walks before bedtime to pray and think and meditate. Read More...

Protection and Surety.

Guy Finley:
When you run into a personal obstacle, you have not run into an outer condition that is denying you happiness. You have run into your own present life-level. Your level of being is what determines where you are at any given moment, because your experience is always who you are.
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Focus on Living

Rev. Winifred Wilkinson Hausmann (1922-2012). was an ordained minister, Winifred followed her calling to Cleveland, where she later met and married George Rowe Hausmann. They later founded and served as co-ministers of the Unity Church of Christianity in Chester Township, where they both spread the teachings of the Christian faith.

Live the Life

If you would help another, let love lead the way.

The Myrtle Fillmore Collection at Unity bears serious reading. She was reared and healed in the Scientific Christian philosophy or tradition. Which got me thinking. Years ago a DVD “Indigo Children”, a new age power of suggestion thingy, was orchestrated to open like a wave across the planet. Perhaps the Truth can be orchestrated to start as wave from each and everyone of us as we open to the Truth of our true nature.

Dresser points out :

"The simple truth is that all our illnesses, woes and vices are intimately related, and that really to be rid of one is to overcome all. It is not a question of gaining enough insight into the power of the human spirit to overcome a few maladies, and then disregard material things and laws as if they did not exist. The power of the spirit is not a half-way measure. It is not disclosed that we may do as we like. The real test of our spiritual faith is given us when we carry the spiritual life into every sphere of our natural and social interests. The power of our human spirit was given us to live by the Spirit. This Spirit has become manifest in this splendid world of space and time, objective in bodies and things, and the Spirit's manifestations are not to be ignored.”

We may say in brief that the one great reason why the world has not whole- heartedly adopted this new version of Christianity is found in the fact that this preliminary period was needed to bring us back to the Gospel. The pioneers cleared the way. They planted the new seed. Its fruitage was judged by appearances. Now we are learning that what seemed to be a mental device for winning people was in reality a call "to live the life." The requisite change of thought from the old order to the new was only a beginning. The psychology of success was merely an aspect of spiritual truths including the whole of life. Behind it all there was a priceless possession which the few caught sight of and have been cherishing. What was that priceless possession? Can we put it into words?

It was the truth of the Inward Presence once more made known to men. It was the rediscovery, made ever and again in human history, that there is in man a God-sense or power of direct communion with heavenly realities, such that experience is the test and verification of all spiritual wisdom. In a practical way this means that any man at any time, whatever his need, may lift his problem into heavenly light and see it transfigured by the guidance he needs. It means further that this light may be admitted into our whole nature, that there is guidance for every need whatsoever. And the application of this guidance to healing was the special phase which this wisdom brought us at first, because this truth needed to be restored to the world. This truth brought back, it became possible to regard the Gospel in its fullness anew. Thus the way to "Live the life" again opened before men as they had not seen it for ages.

The experience of the first pioneer in this re-discovery shows that anyone might make the same discovery--guided by the Spirit. For the heavenly light is always shining. What was needed to bring men to knowledge of it through quest for healing was a method of meditation or silent realization. This method was acquired by our pioneers through the prior discovery that man has inner senses or intuitive power enabling him to discern spiritual reality. All men have evidences of such inward power, but only a few put the evidences together to see that our spiritual nature is adapted for manifold use when we need power in any field. What is needed is an experience sufficiently absorbing so that we will follow it through and find the Spirit within the human spirit, the Lord of life presiding over our human life.

It was the truth of the Inward Presence once more made known to men. It was the rediscovery, made ever and again in human history, that there is in man a God-sense or power of direct communion with heavenly realities, such that experience is the test and verification of all spiritual wisdom. In a practical way this means that any man at any time, whatever his need, may lift his problem into heavenly light and see it transfigured by the guidance he needs.

It means further that this light may be admitted into our whole nature, that there is guidance for every need whatsoever. And the application of this guidance to healing was the special phase which this wisdom brought us at first, because this truth needed to be restored to the world. This truth brought back, it became possible to regard the Gospel in its fullness anew. Thus the way to "Live the life" again opened before men as they had not seen it for ages.

Right thinking assumes its proper place at last as instrumental to right living.

Live the life!

Excerpts from:
SPIRITUAL HEALTH AND HEALING
By HORATIO W. DRESSER. Ph.D. [1922]

"When you begin to understand this life principle, you will know that there is a wellspring of life, substance, and intelligence within you, and that yours is the privilege at any time of giving way to its flow. This may lead to one of the most important realizations that will ever come to you: If ever there is a lack of any kind, whether it is a need for employment, or for money, or for guidance, or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy: Give!"~ Eric Butterworth

This has been an exceptional year. From Myrtle Fillmore’s hand written notes I got a better understanding of how she was healed and her FAITH.

And Horatio Dresser’s notes on the “Silent Treatment” are phenomenal. It’s been preserved.

Ah, the legacy that Quimby left behind.

Dr. Quimby emphasized the importance of knowing what the life is before one could rightly adjust the thoughts.

MANY years ago Dr. Quimby remarked that the time would come when people would once more be healed by word of mouth as in the case of the remarkable healings wrought by Jesus and the apostles.

Maybe that time is NOW! We have the tools! Let’s learn to use them wisely!

The pioneers cleared the way. They planted the new seed.

The impetus is on us to Live the Life

As William Samuel (2+2= REALITY) wrote

“Isness—until you get off your soft sofa and actually make your own determination of Reality, of Truth, of Fact. You will never permanently rid yourself of the grind and grate in the pit of the stomach nor find yourself free of that feeling of impending doom until you make your own, individual determination of exactly what God is to you!”

You are a radiant center of the Christ light, mighty to attract your good, and to radiate good to others.

In the 1930's Ernest C Wilson, a dynamic Unity Minister, had an experience that challenged his beliefs. As a result of the challenge, Dr. Wilson perceived an opportunity.

For one year Ernest meditated upon Jesus Christ. The effect on him was incredible. his Contemplation of Christ did not merely increase his faith, but transformed his life.

Dr. Wilson's meditations brought forth many fruits. Mr. Wilson shared his experiences with Unity students in the form of two books and an incredible series of lessons: The Master Class Lessons. Over 12 thousand students participated in the first 12 classes offered.

The Master Class Lessons consist of six lessons. These six lessons assist the student in gaining an intellectual understanding of Unity's basic teachings and most importantly, how to apply them to daily life.




The Master Class Lessons was first published in 1935

What you see, that you will think; what you think, that you will conceive; what you conceive, that you will bring forth.

Make the most of what you have. Bless your work, your associates, your relatives. Be single-eyed to goodness. Cultivate the habits that will serve you, the habit of prayer, of right thinking, of vision, and in time of need they will rise up to bless you.

Giving is a fine art, but to be a good receiver takes even greater spiritual understanding and unselfishness.

We must learn to receive new friends and new ideas graciously.

We must not snub familiar gifts, familiar blessings.

Cutting the telephone wire does not change the bad news. Fearlessly to face, to meet, and by the power of Truth to transform conditions is wiser than to deny them.

Every one in his human nature makes mistakes: every one in his divine right has power to overcome them.

I AM there.

Prayer for ProtectionThe Light of God surrounds Us
The Love of God enfolds Us
The Power of God protects Us
and the Presence of God watches over Us
Where ever we are God is!

James Dillet Freeman (1912-2003)Internationally acclaimed poet, author, and lecturer.
The "Poet Laureate" of Unity
Freeman spent most of his life working for Unity in a wide variety of roles. He was hired as a teenager in 1929 by Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, after she read some of his early poetry.

He had his work taken to the moon twice, a distinction he shares with no other author. His 1941 Prayer for Protection was taken aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969 by Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. Aldrin had the poem with him when he made his historic moonwalk! Two years later, Jim's 1947 poem “I Am There” went to the moon with Colonel James B. Irwin on Apollo 15. Irwin left a microfilm copy of the poem on the moon.
Do you need Me ?
I am there.

You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.
You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.
You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.

I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.
I am at work, though you do not understand My works.
I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.

Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me
as I AM, and then but as a feeling and a faith.

Yet I am here. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.
When you need ME, I am there.
Even if you deny Me, I am there.
Even when you feel most alone, I am there.
Even in your fears, I am there.
Even in your pain, I am there.

I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.
I am in you, and you are in Me.
Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for
only in your mind are the mists of "yours" and "mine".
Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.

Empty your heart of empty fears.
When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.
You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.
And I AM in all.

Though you may not see the good, good is there, for
I am there. I am there because I have to be, because I AM.

Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take form; only because of ME does the world go forward.
I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living cells are founded.

I am the love that is the law's fulfilling. I am assurance.
I am peace. I am oneness. I am the law that you can live by.
I am the love that you can cling to. I am your assurance.
I am your peace. I am ONE with you. I am.

Though you fail to find ME, I do not fail you.
Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never
wavers, because I know you, because I love you.

Beloved, I AM there.

Spring has sprung

Teach Us to Pray, by Charles Fillmore founder of Unity Church, [1941], at sacred-texts.com(see more of his books there too):
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.(Mathew 6.6).
It is difficult to improve upon this simple method. Quietly entering the inner chamber within the soul, shutting the door to the external thoughts of daily life, and seeking conscious union with God is the highest form of prayer we know. “.
ACIM students may recognize the similarity to "Song of Prayer".


Genevieve Behrend's book: Your Invisible Power
Chapter IX, How I Attracted to Myself Twenty Thousand Dollars
A nice little curiosity. All I can say is try it.

The Strawberry Story.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/c6p63z
This is a good experiment. If you can duplicate it then show the kids. Projects for guides , cubs, seniors etc. The list would be endless.