P.P. Quimby II: Heaven is to bring him back to the knowledge of himself.

Question 9: "What do you think of phrenology?"
Answer: As a science it is a mere humbug. It is at best a polite way of pointing out the soft spots of a man's vanity. Questions and Answers - 1862

P.P. Quimby: We exist within the One Presence, the One Spirit.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby(1802-1866), who was known as "Park," was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and died in Belfast, Maine, where he lived most of his life. Quimby was an accomplished clockmaker, inventor, and Daguerreotypist. In the late 1830s, he learned of mesmerism and became an expert mesmerist. With a youth named Lucius Burkmar, he gave demonstrations of mesmerism, including to some extent its healing powers. Quimby came to question accepted theories of what was happening in mesmerism and eventually developed his own system of spiritual healing.

My predictions for 2011

2010: Lessons and reflections.

Are there new energies in the Universe? Were there ever old ones?
As Emma Curtis Hopkins wrote in December 1894:
HTTP://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/12/we-hear-great-deal-about-getting-ones.html
Interesting that this date closely reflects the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
Did she know something we don't?

For me these links proved eye opening;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-03-09/news/little-boy-blue/full
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_memoirs

How do you tell a true teacher from a false one? As Emmet Fox spoke in 1933:
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/06/there-is-simple-test-by-which-you-can.html

Have New Thought churches lost touch with their roots?
Are there traditional New Thought churches anymore?
Again, as Emmet Fox said in 1933: "seek the Presence of God in your own heart, and to use books, lectures, and churches only as a means to that one end".

Study Troward, Behrend, Quimby, MEB, Curtis, Fillmore, Cady, Butterworth, Fox, Dresser, Holmes, Brooks, Cramer, Murphy, ACIM or whatever you are guided to.

In this new year let your old limiting beliefs give way to new empowering ones.

And, in the event you read something that leads you down a the garden path to a dead end.
Turn around quick, laugh, love and back track. You'll get there eventually.

My prediction for 2011:
"Truth" will prevail.

2012: End of the world?

There has recently been still another revival of the talk about the end of the world. Once again newspaper articles are being written and public meetings held, both in America and in Great Britain, where more or less sensational statements are made to the effect that the end of the world is now due, and may be expected at any moment. Ever since the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 the prophets have been exceptionally busy in this direction, and on several occasions groups of people have actually sat up all night waiting for the end. ...
Lecture delivered by Emmet Fox at Victoria Hall, London, on September 6,1933.

The history of mankind proceeds in no haphazard or casual way, but through the unfoldment of a number of distinct periods or ages. …

… the Great World Teacher of the new age is not to be any man or woman, or any textbook, or any organization; but the Indwelling Christ, that each individual is to find and-contact for himself. …

There is a simple test by which anyone can tell a true teacher from a false one.
It is this:
If he points you to his own personality; if he makes special claims for himself; if he says that he has received any special privileges from God that are not equally accessible to the whole human race anywhere; if he attempts in his own name or in that of an organization to establish under any pretense a monopoly of the truth about God, then, however imposing his credentials, however pleasing his personality may be, he is a false teacher, and you had better have nothing to do with him.

If, on the contrary, he tells you to look away from himself, to seek the Presence of God in your own heart, and to use books, lectures, and churches only as a means to that one end, then, however humble his efforts may be, however lacking his own demonstration may seem, he is nevertheless a true teacher and is giving you the Bread of Life.

… while the race as a whole moves forward relatively slowly on the path of spiritual development, there is now no reason at all why any individual who really desires it should not cut out all intermediate steps and make the Great Demonstration at his own pace, irrespective of any material circumstances of time, or Zodiac, or anything else whatever.

The qualities he will need for success are a single minded pursuit of Truth and the wholehearted practice of the highest that he knows at the moment.
Alter Your Life
Emmet Fox
1938

Cause and Effect

Scientific PrayerThe Principle Underlying Scientific Prayer
In prayer for a change in condition, physical, mental, or financial, for yourself or another, bear in mind that the fundamental necessity for the answer to prayer is the understanding of the scientific statement:

“Ask, believing you have already received, And you shall receive”

This is not as difficult as it appears on the surface, once you realize that: Everything has, its origin in the mind, and that which you seek outwardly, you already possess.

No one can think a thought in the future.

Your thought of a thing constitutes its origin.

THEREFORE:
The Thought Form of the Thing is already Yours As soon as you think it.

Your steady recognition of this Thought Possession causes the thought to concentrate, to condense, to project itself, and to assume physical form.

If you plant an ACORN, you get an OAK.
If you sow a GRAIN OF CORN, you reap a stalk and MANY kernels of corn.

You always get the manifestation of that which you consciously or unconsciously AFFIRM and CLAIM, habitually declare and expect, or, in other words, “AS YOU SOW.”

Therefore, sow the seeds of—
I AM. . .I OUGHT TO DO. . .I CAN DO... I WILL DO.
Realize:
—that because you ARE you OUGHT to do;
—that because you OUGHT to, you CAN do;
—that because you CAN do, you DO do.

The manifestation of this Truth, even in a small degree, gives you the undisputable understanding that DOMINION IS YOUR CHARTER RIGHT.

You are an heir of First Cause, endowed with all the power He has.

God has given you everything. ALL is yours, and you know that all you have to do is to reach out your mental hand and take it.

This Formula may serve as a pattern to shape your own Prayer or Affirmation into God for the benefit of another or yourself.



Troward tells us that the great lesson he learned from the airplane and wireless telegraphy is the triumph of principle over precedent, the working out of an idea to its logical conclusion in spite of accumulated contrary testimony of all past experience.
Your Invisible Power
by GENEVIEVE BEHREND
1921


“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 the past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence or growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner with 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 DORE LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE[1909]
by Thomas Troward

Genevieve Behrend was the only personal student of Thomas Troward.

Right-use-ness[righteousness]

HOW TO LIVE LIFE AND LOVE ITby Genevieve BehrendA series of lessons to indicate in a clear, concise way "the natural principles governing the relation between the creative action of all circumstances and conditions."Ponder these excerpts.

“Be still! ‐‐‐ and KNOW ‐‐‐ I AM ‐‐‐ God.”

Sit quietly in a relaxed position, and, when wholly at ease, let your mind take in the significance of these words:
“Be still! ‐‐‐ and KNOW ‐‐‐ I AM ‐‐‐ God.”

Yes, I AM that innermost part of you that sits within, and calmly waits and watches, knowing neither time nor space; for I AM the Eternal and fill all space.

This Key is “To THINK is to CREATE,” or “As you THINK in your HEART, so is it with you”.
Stop and meditate on this that it may get firmly fixed in your mind.
A Thinker is a Creator.
A Thinker lives in a world of his own conscious creation.
When you once know how “to think,” you can create at will anything you wish, ‐‐ whether it be a new personality, a new environment, or a new world.

As for your true “Soul Mate,” which you have been led by others to believe must be waiting for you somewhere, cease looking; for it exists not without in some other body, but within your own Soul.

You say you remember your past lives.
Do you? Are you sure?

If it pleases you to believe that you actually were that expression, it is well, and I shall cause such belief to be of benefit to you; but only to the extent of preparing you for the great Realization that afterward will come.

This idea of a Master, by your thinking, becomes what you desire and imagine a Master to be.

Your secret desire for a Master will bring him to you, but only when I have prepared you for such appearance. But such appearance will be only an appearance of a Master. The true Master or Teacher, when He appears, you may never recognize; for He may be hidden in an interesting friend, a business associate, your next door neighbor, or in your own wife or husband or child.

In the following words lies hidden the Great Secret.
Blessed be you who find it.

Be still! And KNOW, ‐‐ I AM, ‐‐ GOD.

KNOW I AM in you. KNOW I AM you. KNOW I AM your LIFE. KNOW All Wisdom, All Love, All Power abides in this Life, which is flowing freely through your entire being NOW.

I AM the LIFE, I AM the INTELLIGENCE, I AM the POWER in all Substance, ‐‐ in all the cells of your body; in the cells of all mineral, vegetable and animal matter; in fire, water and air; in Sun, Moon and Stars. I AM that in you and in them which IS. Their consciousness is One with your consciousness, and All is My Consciousness. Through My Consciousness in them All that they have or are is yours ‐‐ for the asking.

Speak in the Consciousness of your Oneness with Me.

Speak in the Consciousness of My Power in you and of My Intelligence in them.

Speak – COMMAND what You WILL in this Consciousness, ‐‐ and the Universe will rush to obey.

RISE UP! O aspirant for union with Me. Accept now your Divine Heritage! Open wide your Soul, your mind, your body, and breathe in My Breath of Life!

KNOW that I AM filling you full to overflowing with My Divine POWER, that every fibre, every nerve, every cell, every atom of your being is now consciously ALIVE with Me, alive with My Health, with My Strength, with MY Intelligence with My BE‐ING!

For I AM within you. We are not separated. We could not possibly be separated. For I AM You. I AM your REAL Self, your REAL Life and I AM manifesting My SELF and ALL MY POWERS in you NOW.

AWAKE! Rise up and assert your Sovereignty! KNOW your SELF and your POWERS! KNOW that all I have is yours, that My Omnipotent LIFE is flowing through you, that you can take of IT and build with IT what you WILL, and IT will manifest for you as Health, Power, Prosperity, Union, Happiness, Peace, ‐‐ anything you WILL of ME.

Imagine this. THINK it. KNOW it! Then, with all the Positiveness of your nature, Speak the Creative WORD! It will not return to you void.

But know, Beloved, that this cannot be until you have come to Me in complete and utter surrender, until you have given yourself, your substance, your affairs, your Life into My keeping, putting all care and responsibility upon Me, resting and trusting in Me absolutely.Excerpts from: THE IMPERSONAL LIFEby
Joseph S. Brenner
1916