GOD IS. Period!

Christ IS, the Light that saves you from a world of thought, the Life that is your True Identity, the YOU of you, the You that has always been and always will be, the Enlighten One that lights every man. Like it or not, no mental route will take you into heaven. Your trinkets, crystals, chakras, séances, incantations, positional meditations, will fall off the end of the world with you, and you will find that once again you are alone and without God in that world! These things can’t hurt you! They have no real power. There is only ONE POWER! GOD. These things are of no significance whatsoever in Truth. There is only ONE WAY in, and that is "I AM THE WAY".

Prince of the Humanists.

The Renaissance man of letters, Desiderius Erasmus; author, amongst many other things, of the most famous collections ever of wise sayings drawn from antiquity, the Adages.

It was to Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, and author of Utopia, that Erasmus attributed one of his adages:

Omnium horarum homo,
‘A man for all hours’,
(or more popularly, ‘A man for all seasons’).

In his commentary on this adage, Erasmus says that such a man is one

‘who suits himself to seriousness and jesting alike, and whose company is always delightful.’

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists."

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The "principle of "non-resistance" .

“Cramer, Brooks, Rix Militz, and the Fillmores were simply the most dedicated of Hopkin’s numerous students who spent the last two decades of the nineteenth century criss-crossing the nation on missionary journeys, lecturing and healing the sick, establishing churches, schools, and seminaries, and producing journals, pamphlets, tracts and novels elaborating what become known by the 1890’s as “the New Thought” perspective.”From: Satter, Beryl. “Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement 1875-1920” by Beryl Satter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pg. 81


Charles Fillmore placed a large glass bottle at the exit for customers to place a love offering for the meal they had just enjoyed in restaurant he instituted in Unity Village It always made a great profit. When Charles passed on the restaurant was put under the charge of a manager who then put out a menu with prices. They ceased making such a profit!!!. A love offering always is the best way to go rather than make a set charge: Give without thought of receiving and the return will be pressed down and overflowing.

Malinda Cramer offered her primary class (eight lessons) for $5, her theological class (twelve lessons for $10 and her normal class, including diploma for $25. ECH charged $50.
It was one morning in 1885, while in prayer that Malinda Cramer had simply asked, "Is there any way out of these conditions? Is there any power in the vast universe that can heal me?" The answer came intuitively. The illumined realization of the power of the Infinite Spirit freed her from the belief that her condition controlled her. She studied with the "teacher of teachers," Emma Curtis Hopkins as did many others. As she let go of old habits of belief, she became healed.

In 1887, Mrs. Hopkins, went to San Francisco at the request of interested people and taught a class of 250 people, including Mrs. Sadie Gorie, Miss Harriet Hale Rix, and Annie Rix (Prior to marrying Paul Militz[1]).

Annie Rix Militz first step was to join Mrs. Sadie Gorie, another member of Hopkin’s San Francisco class in establishing a “metaphysical bureau” (a combination metaphysical bookstore and healing and teaching center). The bureau expanded quickly. It soon included a kindergarten, a school, a “Christian Science Bazaar” (labor exchange) and a “charitable branch” that distributed goods to the poor.”
Mrs. Militz, who became the leading teacher in California, moved in 1896 to Los Angeles and established the Home of Truth there. Mrs., Militz was also the leader in the establishment of the other Homes of Truth in California. The Master Mind, the monthly periodical representing this branch of the movement, was begun in 1911. Annie Rix Militz relied entirely on freewill offerings for her healing, teaching, and preaching services.
[1]T. J. Shelton, editor of Scientific Christian and Mr. Paul Militz, who with Mr. Shelton, were the first to teach Mrs. Elizabeth Towne, editor of Nautilus.
Nautilus had an average monthly circulation of 85000 in the 1920s. From: Satter, Beryl. “Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement 1875-1920” by Beryl Satter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Page 249

Towne published Wallace Wattles who also wrote for Nautilus.

“He wrote almost constantly. Then it was that he formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision . . . . He lived every page of "How to be a Genius." In the last three years he made lots of money, and had good health, except for his extreme frailty.”

Excerpt from a letter written by Wallace Wattles daughter, Florence Wattles, to the editor of Nautilus New Thought magazine shortly after his untimely death in 1911..
The book "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles, published by Towne in 1910, espouses the principle that truly believing in the object of your desire and focusing onto it will lead to that object or goal being realized on the material plane

In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) had used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, stating that "like attracts like.” William Walter Atkinson also wrote occult books under various aliases so to state Towne was dedicated to strictly New Thought is questionable. She published what sold.


The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's prosperity theology book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the principle, stating:

"You are what you think, not what you think you are."

The phrase "Law of Attraction" appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge in 1915, and Annie Besant in 1919.

Napoleon Hill released The Law of Success in 16 Lessons (1928) which directly references the Law of Attraction, by name, repeatedly. Napoleon Hill released The Law of Success in 16 Lessons (1928) which directly references the Law of Attraction, by name, repeatedly.

The "principle of "non-resistance" was a popular concept taught in conjunction with the Law of Attraction.

“Law of Attraction” continues to sell books. It had nothing to do with the teachings of Quimby, MEB, Hopkins or any of their students. But by writing “law of attraction in capitals does not make it an absolute law. That’s an ego thing, not from Spirit.

The Nautilus was a magazine of the New Thought Movement, founded in 1898 by Elizabeth Towne. In May 1900, Towne moved the magazine to Holyoke, Massachusetts, which became its permanent home until its discontinuation in August 1953, when Towne retired from publishing at the age of 88. Towne also published, under the "Elizabeth Towne" imprint, books consisting of material which had run in serialized form in the magazine, generally supplying introductions to the compiled works.
Authors who were published in the magazine include:

• William Walker Atkinson
• Kate Atkinson Boehme
• Jonathan Balcombe
• Florence Tabor Critchlow
• Paul Ellsworth
• Orison Swett Marden
• Edwin Markham
• Thomas J. Shelton
• I am sermons 1900
• The Law of Vibrations 1900
• Elizabeth Towne
• William Towne

•  Wallace D(elois) Wattles

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Every major religion in the world has a variation of the Golden Rule:

Christianity All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:1
Confucianism Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state. Analects 12:2
Buddhism Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.Udana-Varga 5,1
Hinduism This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you. Mahabharata 5,1517
Islam No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah
Judaism What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary Talmud, Shabbat 3id
Taoism Regard your neighbor’s gain as your gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. Tai Shang Kan Yin P’ien
Zoroastrianism That nature alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for itself Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5


WHAT HAVE A FEW OF OUR TEACHERS TOLD US?

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”~ Gandhi

“If we would live the life of real success, real joy, real Christlikeness, we must keep the current turned to flow from within outward instead of in the opposite direction. God says, “If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like noonday. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail” (Is. 58:10-11). H. Emilie Cady

“…. service is one of the steps that lead up to the place where all the fullness of God awaits men…..Unless you use for the service of others what God has already given to you, you will find it a long, weary road to spiritual understanding.” H. Emilie Cady

“…man should commit the justice that he wishes to see brought into human affairs.” Charles Fillmore

“Here is the great lesson for us. We should give ourselves first. Walt Whitman said: “… When I give, I give myself.” Here is a great lesson for all of us, that we must put the spirit of giving into our gift. If we don’t do that, it falls short of the real thing.” Charles Fillmore, 1929

“As you help others spiritually and in every way you not only fulfill the law of giving and receiving, you develop your own resources and capabilities in fuller measure.” Myrtle Fillmore

“It is (Creative Energy’s) nature to spring into being through our thought and action.” Ernest Holmes

“It is quite a burden lifted when we realize that we do not have to move the world – it is going to move anyway. This realization does not lessen our duty or our social obligation. It clarifies it. It enables us to do joyously, and free from morbidity, that which we should do in the social state.” Ernest Holmes

The Ipswich witchcraft trial

(also known as the second Salem witch trial) was an 1878 American civil court trial in which Lucretia L. S. Brown, an adherent of the Christian Science religion, accused fellow Christian Scientist Daniel H. Spofford of attempting to harm her through his "mesmeric" mental powers. By 1918, it was considered the last witchcraft trial held in the United States. Although the case draws its name from the town in which Brown lived, the trial was held in Salem, Massachusetts. It garnered significant attention for its startling claims and the location in which it was held. The judge dismissed the case.
Daniel Spofford was one of the earliest adherents of MBE from Chrisitian Science. Spofford took one of MBE's classes in metaphysical healing in the early spring of 1875, and graduated in April.
Lucretia Brown was a 50-year-old spinster who lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a town about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Salem, Massachusetts. An injury to her spine in childhood left her an invalid, but she said she had been healed through Christian Science. She suffered a relapse in 1877 and again in 1878, and accused Spofford of having interfered with her health through "mesmermism". Her lawsuit stated:

...that Daniel H. Spofford, of Newburyport, ... is a mesmerist, and practices the art of mesmermism, and by his said art and the power of his mind influences and controls the minds and bodies of other persons, and uses his said power and art for the purposes of injuring the persons and property and social relations of others and does by said means so injure them.
And plaintiff further showeth that the said Daniel H. Spofford has at divers times and places since the year eighteen-hundred and seventy-five wrongfully and maliciously and with intent to injure the plaintiff, caused the plaintiff by means of his said power and art great suffering of body and mind, and spinal pains and neuralgia and a temporary suspension of mind, and still continues to cause the plaintiff the same.
And the plaintiff has reason to fear and does fear that he will continue in the future to cause the same. And the plaintiff says that the said injuries are great and of an irreparable nature, and that she is wholly unable to escape from the control and influence he so exercises upon her and from the aforesaid effects of said control and influence.

Judge Gray dismissed the case, noting the claim was vague and the complaint "framed without a knowledge of the law of equity." The court also said it was not clear how it could prevent such mental control, even if it imprisoned Spofford.
One critical observer called the trial

"one of the most bizarre court-room sessions ever held in the United States.”

The Rags to Riches myth~A Propagandist?

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. He initially wrote and published for adults, but a friendship with boys' author William Taylor Adams led him to writing for the young. He published for years in Adams's Student and Schoolmate, a children's magazine of moral writings. His lifelong theme of 'rags to riches' had a profound impact on America in the Gilded Age[1].
Alger was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1832, and entered Harvard College at age sixteen. At seventeen he became a professional writer with the sale of a few literary pieces to a Boston magazine. Following graduation, he worked briefly as an assistant editor for a Boston magazine before teaching in New England boys' schools for a few years. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1860, wrote in support of the Union cause during the American Civil War, and accepted a ministerial post with a Unitarian church in Brewster, Massachusetts in 1864. He left the church in 1866 following an internal investigation regarding sexual misconduct involving two teenage boys of the parish. He denied nothing, and relocated to New York City.
Between 1864 and 1866 Alger published his first boys' books: Frank's Campaign (1864), Paul Prescott's Charge (1865), and Charlie Codman's Cruise (1866). His literary niche was made secure in 1868 with his fourth boys' book Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability. The book was a great success. His many boys' books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured a cast of stock characters – the valiant youth, the noble mysterious stranger, the snobbish youth, and the evil squire.
The "Horatio Alger myth" is the rags to riches message in his books. The rags to riches theme which has been associated with Alger’s stories is in no way accurate, as his heroes rarely become extremely wealthy. His characters usually hold “low-level jobs in companies, often attaining personal stability but not wealth or prominent position.” Some of Alger’s novels assert that material wealth is insignificant unless it is paired with middle-class respectability. For Alger’s characters, wealth was the product of a meritocracy, and the direct consequence of “honesty, thrift, self-reliance, industry, a cheerful whistle and an open manly face.” However, in some of Alger’s works there is also an implied belief in hereditary determinism, explicitly contrasting achievement based on merit.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Alger’s works were virtually out of print and many commentators seemed to have regarded Alger as a propagandist, saying

“the author who celebrated capitalist markets and insisted that in the United States, any poor boy with patience and an unwavering commitment to hard work can become a dazzling success.”

While those moving between income brackets and improving their socio-economic status may not be experiencing dazzling success, there is some evidence that the United States may be a land of opportunity[citation needed], highlighted by,

“the potential greatness of the common man, rugged individualism, [and] economic triumph.”

[1]In United States history, the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post–Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today”. The name refers to the process of gilding an object with a superficial layer of gold and is meant to make fun of ostentatious display while playing on the term "golden age".

The Gilded Age is most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy. During the 1870s and 1880s, the U.S. economy rose at the fastest rate in its history, with real wages, wealth, GDP, and capital formation all increasing rapidly. For example, between 1865 and 1898, the output of wheat increased by 256%, corn by 222%, coal by 800% and miles of railway track by 567%. Thick national networks for transportation and communication were created. The corporation became the dominant form of business organization, and a managerial revolution transformed business operations.

The Gilded Age.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's better-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is remarkable for two reasons–-

it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.

The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595):

"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess."

Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Another interpretation of the title, of course, is the contrast between an ideal "Golden Age," and a less worthy "Gilded Age," as gilding is only a thin layer of gold over baser metal, so the title now takes on a pejorative meaning as to the novel's time, events and people.
The theme of the novel is that the lust for getting rich through land speculation pervades society, illustrated by the Hawkinses as well as Ruth's well-educated father, who nevertheless cannot resist becoming enmeshed in self-evidently dubious money-making schemes. The main action of the story takes place in Washington, D.C., and satirizes the greed and corruption of the governing class. The book does not touch upon other themes now associated with the "Gilded Age”, such as industrialization, monopolies, and the corruption of urban political machines. This may be because this book was written at the very beginning of the period.
The novel concerns the efforts of a poor rural Tennessee family to grow affluent by selling the 75,000 acres (300 km2) of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas “Si” Hawkins, in a timely manner. After several adventures in Tennessee, the family fails to sell the land and Si Hawkins dies. The rest of the Hawkins story line focuses on their beautiful adopted daughter, Laura. In the early 1870s, she travels to Washington, D.C. to become a lobbyist. With a Senator's help, she enters Society and attempts to persuade Congressmen to require the federal government to purchase the land. n the end, Laura fails to convince Congress to purchase the Hawkins land. She kills her married lover but is found not guilty of the crime, with the help of a sympathetic jury and a clever lawyer. However, after a failed attempt to pursue a career on the lecture circuit, her spirit is broken, and she dies regretting her fall from innocence.
Washington Hawkins, the eldest son who has drifted through life on his father’s early promise that he would be “one of the richest men in the world,” finally gives up the family's ownership of the still-unimproved land parcel when he cannot afford to pay its $180 of taxes. He also appears ready to overcome his passivity: "The spell is broken, the life-long curse is ended!" Philip, drawing upon his engineering skills, discovers coal on another characters land, wins that characters daughters heart and appears destined to enjoy a prosperous and conventionally happy marriage.

“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 – 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870; first published in The Hartford Courant), popular for their abounding and refined humour and mellow personal charm, their wholesome love of outdoor things, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style.
Charles Dudley Warner is known for making the famous remark,

“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

This was quoted by Mark Twain in a lecture, and is still commonly misattributed to Twain.

William Taylor Adams/ Warren T. Ashton/ Oliver Optic

William Taylor Adams (1822 – 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and Massachusetts state legislator. He was born in Medway, Massachusetts in 1822 to Captain Laban Adams and Catherine Johnson Adams. He became a teacher in the Boston, Massachusetts public schools in 1845, and remained in that capacity through 1865. In 1846, he married Sarah Jenkins, with whom he had two children. He served as a member of the School Board of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for 14 years. In 1869, he became a member of the Massachusetts General Court.
His first book, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave (1853), was published under the pseudonym of Warren T. Ashton
He wrote more than 100 books of fiction for boys under the pseudonym "Oliver Optic," published in large part as series in Oliver Optic's Magazine, of which he was the editor.
Among the more popular titles were:
• Indoors and Out (1855)
• The Boat Club (1855)
• Young America Abroad
• The Starry Flag
• Onward and Upward
• The Yacht Club

Other titles included stories about the Civil War. He also wrote two novels, The Way of the World and Living Too Fast.
Adams' writing was criticized by Louisa May Alcott[1], among others. Alcott used her story Eight Cousins to deplore Adams' use of slang, his cast of bootblacks and newsboys, and his stories of police courts and saloons. Adams responded in kind, pointing out Alcott's own use of slang and improbable plot twists.
[1]Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Mesmerism, Magnetism, Hypnotism, Psychology and Astral Bodies?

In a typical warning to her students against fears that “mesmerism, magnetism, hypnotism, psychology,” or “astral bodies” could hurt them, Emma Curtis Hopkins said:

“There is no power of any man or woman or child whereby they may communicate with any other one in or out of the body. It is pure delusion. I propose to you to mind your business and keep away from astral bodies, elementals and threats of evil. They are totally unscientific!” ~ 1891

1. What does it mean to take no thought of what we shall eat or drink, when Jesus himself fasted forty days, and the wise men of Scripture fasted oft and dieted to suit occasions?
2. How is the science consistent when in one breath it tells us we can have nothing to ourselves, and in the next breath tells us we can have the desire of our hearts?
3. When we do not know exactly what course to pursue, how can we be sure it is the true or false self that urges us into doing a certain way?
These are very good questions and cover a great deal of ground.
First.-What does it mean to take no thought, etc.? The apparently contradictory nature of word and action here is the divinest harmony to the true scientist. You certainly must not take the least bit of care about what you eat, drink or wear, and yet you are to eat, drink and dress always properly.
Cast all your care-that is, let his Friend so close by you take the care on His own shoulders. Go you about healing in His name, teaching the truth as far as you know it; preaching silently or audibly, as judgment dictates, all about the glory and beauty and blessedness of Spiritual Reality.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added." That is, if you are dealing with spiritual doctrines, the material movements and things will set themselves right. You are not to set the material things and movements right in order to be spiritual, but you are to be spiritual in order to set material things right.
If you are spiritually minded you will often fast many days and not realize it. You do not fast in order to be spiritual, but fast because you are spiritual. Fasting in order to be spiriual, weakens you. It is a taking thought for the body that is forbidden. But fasting that you do when you are already spiritual, strengthens and invigorates you.
You have meat to eat during those hours that the world knows of. Jesus fasted because he became spiritual as a reward for preaching and teaching Truth. So did the wise men. Then ate again after the fast. He took no care about it. The Law worked its own way through him and with him.
We must be spiritual by thinking and telling spiritual Truth, Then we shall find food, raiment and shelter provided and suited for us.
Second.-- You ask how the science is consistent which tells us we can have nothing, and then says we can have all things? I find that I must scream, vehemently shout, or whisper mysteriously, or whatever way will impress upon you that nothing, nothing, worse than nothing, belongs to mortality. But all things belong to the spiritual, or truly minded.
Some are hounding me as if I originated the statement of Scripture that the fulfillment of the desire of the heart belongs by right to everyone of us. But I only read out of the Law, I do not originate. I did not discover it, Here is the text again which is the key to the whole question: "Seek ye first the kingdom...and all these things shall be added." Renounce the world the flesh and the devil. That is, deny their reality. Then spiritual powers and spiritual faculties, and spiritual supplies make you a new creature. Think what is orderly, true, divine. Speak of these things, teach them; then you will say the mountains of sorrow, Be gone! and sorrows shall flee away. You shall say to desolation, "I am not desolate," and true companionship will come to you. You shall have more abundantly than you can ask or even think after you have become truly spiritual. Not till then. To the materially-minded nothing is promised. To the spiritually-minded all things are promised.
The desire you have this moment deep down in your heart you ought to have fulfilled. Being your own it ought to come to you.

"Rise the hills,
And swim the sea,
And like thy shadow
Fall on thee."

But it wont come till you are scientific-speak Truth.
It is very strange how our desires change when we become truthful. We set out denying all the obstacles that keep us from getting our wishes. Barrier after barrier is removed by our denials. Then suddenly we take a new outlook. We would not have the thing we first asked for now. Our wishes lie along quite another channel. We see things from a more sensible standpoint. We finally get just what we desire. Not what we first asked for, but just what we have come to want. The first desire was a good thing to start off with. The last one to end up with. "We shall be changed."
Third.-- You ask how to tell the true monition from the false one? Easy enough. Do that which seems just right, or what you seem driven to do and trust your choice. Trust that the Best, the Divine, guided you. Never mind how far away from the Right it seems. Trust that it is Right. Oh! how "you" do like to be trusted! That is, the "you" likes to be trusted by what seems to be you. Trust the Leading. It is the Divine of you. Fear not. Trust. Trust. Trust. Each hour of trusting "yourself" brings you out clearer and clearer as the off-spring of Wisdom. If I were as afraid as so many seem to be, I should be quite swamped, because so many condemn me for the bold moves I make. But I jump to a Leading, and let my best beloved cry out against it. Nobody is quite so wise concerning your own matters as yourself. Whatever you do while trying to do the best you can, you have a right to believe in doing. I know this by experience. I know it by Law. I know it by inspiration.

Let us unite in silent prayer to set us forevermore free from wrong and evil.
Say with me in the silence, these words:
I am not afraid that my health will fail me.
I am not afraid that my strength will leave me.
I am not afraid that my peace will be disturbed,
from henceforth forevermore.
I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." Amen.
July 31, 1888

Hopkins had also explained, that although one might experience a craving for “tobacco, strong drink, or other vicious tastes,” in fact, “No desire for the undesirable has existence.” Such lowly desires were actually “the restless desire for satisfaction seeking a false channel,” and were in fact not for stimulation, but for “peace”. Class Lessons #82

If you have read Genesis and thought about the garden, you are right now in it. The Bible is not a history book, in fact, in Reality ( Reality being GOD) there is no history, for there is no yesterday and no tomorrow. Jesus told us to take no thought about tomorrow. Why? Because there is only ever this one eternal moment right now.
So, you are in Heaven (God) right this instant. So long as you are facing within, you stand face to face with your True Self. That True Self is your ‘other half’ so to speak, the invisible YOU, which can sit right where you are and say, "Once I took a trip to…" and know that the one that took the trip was the little outward ‘self’ you have imagined yourself to be, but the ONE who can say this and see this is the TRUE YOU. If you imagine God as one half of a parenthesis "(" and your True Being, that Infinite One, who can see your little ‘self’ going places and doing things, being the other ")", you can see that when you put them together you have () or O or O-ne. So long as we face ‘outward’ to a world of the visible, making it our main focus, thinking it is the REAL, turning inward only on occasion, if ever, and thinking ourselves something different from God – we can see only as through a glass darkly. But the moment we turn inward and it becomes our true and absolute focus, our immaculate Obsession, continually seeking the Kingdom, we find our self face to face with the Light and know even as we are known.
You do not have to go through hell to get to heaven, although quite often people have to get to the end of their ‘little self’ one way or another, because there must come a realization that, "I can of my own self do nothing".
. . . .
Upon awakening everything, truly begins to change. Time is no more. We seem to be where we are supposed to be when we are supposed to be there, but every day is the same to us and day and night are not as they ever were before. Our ‘ideas’ of God and prayer completely change. Until now we have seen God to be both our ‘gofer and chauffeur’, there to follow our commands, fill our Christmas list of desires, supply our needs, and prop up our little egos. We have expected God to give us the glory, to forgive our sins, to hear our prayers, and if we are good to bless us for being so, while expecting God, which is Love, to kill and destroy those we judged not good. Thus we have, in our imagination, developed our world, the whole scenario from birth to death, even and including our concept of heaven, hell, and earth. We have ruled over our concept, and have been the god of ‘this world’ – our world, the world we have made, judging others and sentencing them according to our concept of right and wrong, good and evil, which we have been making up as we have gone along, based upon our own particular likes and dislikes, sending them to hell if they crossed an invisible line of our own demarcation, never-minding that God so loved the world that he sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. We have been running the show, telling God what to do and how to do it, calling it prayer, and making all kinds of excuses for our little God when he didn’t follow our commands, prayers, and requests, yet using the magic words, ‘not my will, but thine’, while believing sickness, pain, misery, poverty, and even death to be God’s will. We have had our theology all neatly wrapped up in a box, and so long as no one tries to open our box and let in light, we are satisfied with the darkness or ignorance we enjoy. It is time to break the box and allow the Light to shine in, to reach up, to take the Hand that is offered to us, to arise and walk out of the box, and furthermore to recognize that there is no box!
GOD in a Box
Jane Woodward

There’s no place like home.

Annie Rix Militz, Harriet Hale Rix, Malinda Cramer, Myrtle Fillmore, Miss Eleanor Mel, Kate Bingham , Nona Brooks, Fannie Brook James, Alethea Brooks Small, Harriet Emilie Cady, Ethelred Frances Folsom, Ernest Holmes, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Ursula N. Gestefeld, Lillian DeWaters, Charles Brodie Patterson, Henry Thomas Hamblin, Henry Wood, Ralph Waldo Trine, Albert Grier, James Allen, Raymond Charles Barker, Joel Goldsmith, Abel Leighton Allen, Eric Butterworth, Donald Curtis James Dillet Freeman, Dr George Bendall, Dr. Stuart Grayson, Dr. Raymond Charles Barker , Glen Clark, Emmet Fox, Joseph Murphy, Frederick Bailes, Charles Fillmore, Walter C. Lanyon, Linda Buntyn Willie, Nicol Campbell all learned and taught, to the best of their ability, the Truth. Gone, not but not forgotten.

He who is patient, calm, gentle, and forgiving under all circumstances, manifests the Truth. Truth will never be proved by wordy arguments and learned treatises, for if men do not perceive the Truth in infinite patience, undying forgiveness, and all-embracing compassion, no words can ever prove it to them.

Neville-isms.

Realize that the Christ within you is your own wonderful human imagination. “God became Man that Man may become God” means: “Imagination became you that you may become all Imagination.” Man has difficulty associating Imagination with God. Somehow the word “God” denotes some being that created the world, yet remained apart from it, but by the use the word “Imagination” it is my hope that the separation ceases to be. May I tell you: the whole vast world is all imagination. The realists think they are nearer to the truth, yet they do not realize they are dictating nothing more than their imagination. They laugh at those who are mystically inclined, but may I tell you: leave them alone and go your way in confidence that what you are imagining you already are, you will become. ~ 1967

You do not need to ask anyone to aid you in the answer to a prayer, for the simple reason that God is omnipotent and omniscient. He is in you as your own wonderful IAmness. Everyone on the outside is your servant, your slave, ready and able to do your will. All you need do is know what you want. Construct a scene which would imply the fulfillment of your desire. Enter the scene and remain there. If your imaginal counselor (your feeling of fulfillment) agrees with that which is used to illustrate your fulfilled desire, your fantasy will become a fact. If it does not, start all over again by creating a new scene and enter it. It costs you nothing to imagine consciously! ~1968

Act as though things are as you would like them to be. Persuade yourself that it is true and let the results follow. This is how you are called upon to operate in this world. It is not written in detail, but only sketches that you fill in with your life.~ 1967

UFOs, Hippies, New Age and religion.

I used to frequent New Age bookstores in Kitchener and often wondered who these authors were and what influenced them. What was all the Ascension stuff based on and what, if any, significance places like Mount Shasta or Sedona have(none, only if your believe it). It’s somewhat fascinating with the terms “Maitreya”, “Uriel” and “Elohim” pop up.

The widow and the three drops of oil.

The prophet asked the widow, “What have ye in your house?” And she replied, “Three drops of oil.” He then said to her, “Go borrow vessels. Close the door after ye have returned into your house and begin to pour.” And she poured from three drops of oil into all the borrowed vessels, filling them to capacity with oil remaining.
You, the reader, are this widow. You have not a husband to impregnate you or make you fruitful, for a ‘widow’ is a barren state. Your awareness is now the Lord – or the prophet that has become your husband.
Follow the example of the widow, who instead of recognizing an emptiness or nothingness, recognized the something – three drops of oil.
Then the command to her, “Go within and close the door,” that is, shut the door of the senses that tell you of the empty measures, the debts, the problems.
When you have taken your attention away completely by shutting out the evidence of the senses, begin to FEEL the joy, ¬ (symbolized by oil) – of having received the things desired. When the agreement is established within you so that all doubts and fears have passed away, then, you too will fill all the empty measures of your life and ill have an abundance running over.
Recognition is the power that conjures in the world. Every state that you have ever recognized, you have embodied. That which you are recognizing as true of yourself today is that which you are experiencing. So be as the widow and recognize joy, no matter how little the beginnings of recognition, and you will be generously rewarded – for the world is a magnified mirror, magnifying everything that you are conscious of being.
Your awareness of being – the world is AT YOUR COMMAND!




Excerpt from: AT YOUR COMMAND
NEVILLE GODDARD
1939

This book contains the very essence of the Principle of Expression. Had I cared to, I could have expanded it into a book of several hundred pages but such expansion would have defeated the purpose of this book.

Commands to be effective – must be short and to the point: the greatest command ever recorded is found in the few simple words,
'And God said, ‘Let there be light.’

In keeping with this principle I now give to you, the reader, in these few pages, the truth as it was revealed to me.
Neville

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111th Country Swaziland Visited February 18, 2012
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland (Umbuso weSwatini), and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique. The nation, as well as its people, are named after the 19th century king Mswati II.
The area that Swaziland now covers has been continuously inhabited since prehistory. Today, the population is primarily ethnic Swazis whose language is siSwati, though English is spoken as a second language. The Swazi people descend from the southern Bantu who migrated from Central Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Anglo-Boer War saw the United Kingdom make Swaziland a protectorate under its direct control. Swaziland gained independence in 1968. Swaziland is a member of the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The head of state is the king, who appoints the prime minister and a small number of representatives for both chambers of parliament. Elections are held every five years to determine the majority of the representatives. A new constitution was adopted in 2005.
Some 75% of the population are employed in subsistence farming. Swaziland's main trading partner is South Africa, and its currency is pegged to the South African rand.

Motto: "Siyinqaba" (Swati)
"We are a fortress"
"We are a mystery/riddle"
"We hide ourselves away"

Anthem: Nkulunkulu Mnikati wetibusiso temaSwati
Oh God, Bestower of the Blessings of the Swazi