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!”