Undoubtedly, we have all placed ourselves as students endeavoring to apply Truth to our earthly problems. Reader, have you not done this very thing?
Suppose that all knowledge of Truth we possessed were inadequate to solve our problems. We might search for more knowledge, and greater ability to make use of it, but the demands upon us might increase, and the problems seem never to cease. We often long for that place where we rest, with no thought of an earthly problem. Have we not all entertained such a wish?
Invariably it takes a flash of light to reveal the true meaning of Life and of all things to us: nor can it be obtained in any other way.
As the veil lifts, one moment’s sudden revelation completely rearranges and shifts our viewpoint; and the scene abruptly changes. In fact, this was exactly what happened to me one day while in deep meditation.
I was considering Mathematics, its students and problems, when suddenly it dawned upon me that the Student-position, which I had assumed, was certainly an unreliable and unsound one.
As this actuality burst upon me, breathlessly my heart cried out, ----oh to be the principle instead of a student!
Instantly there followed a moment of shining light with its electrifying transfusion, sudden and swift. As though a curtain had been raised admitting some startling new sight, I saw the indisputable fact with vivid, clear distinctness--I saw that I was the Principle . . . not a student at all!
Under this flood of blazing revelation, what else could I do but exclaim further,--Why, this means that I am the TRUTH! I am not a student trying to solve problems of human existence, but I am the absolute and changeless Truth itself! The simplicity of all this amazed and overwhelmed me. Here in this brief but thrilling moment, I saw what years of study and research had never given me.
Immediately, I then understood Jesus' dynamic statement, "I am the Truth!" Yes, this was it. I was not a student of Truth, endeavoring to obtain and attain certain states of consciousness, always letting go one for another higher on the scale. No, I was the Truth itself!
What more then could I ask? What more could be desired? Did Truth, or true Being, have any association with a problem? Certainly not. Neither, then, did I!
"I am the Truth!" exuberantly I told myself again and again, in my newly found changed relationship. I am not trying to do, to think or to know something; but I am doing, feeling and being Truth, the Life, and the Way! Oh, the blessed wonder of light!
I saw then that the problem of human existence could never be solved....but will dissolve when we take our rightful stand as the Truth, the Life and the Way.
Now once having seen and accepted this platform, all other speculations immediately vanished, while beautiful verifications in Jesus" life and teaching came flooding my rapturous thought. How plainly now to see that Jesus never said that he was a student of Life, but insisted, "I am the Life!' Neither did he intimate that he was a follower of some particular way or system, but again and again reiterated, "I am the Way!"
No wonder he was so absolute, so completing certain and sure. Never did he speak nor act as though he were using Truth as a means to bring about certain healing results in a material existence! His attention was NOT towards conditions, states nor beliefs, but upon that Being which is unalterable; that Principle which is fixed and absolute; that Life which is wholeness always . . .Against such there is no law.
Reader, Know thyself! Learn who and what you really are; the meaning of life and the fullness of all things. Then for you, wars and problems will cease and be no more; sorrows and limitations fade away; for finding yourself as you really are, you shall be in touch with every good and perfect thing; and shall live here on earth a life of peace, joy and plenty.
Lillian
DeWaters, (1883-1964) an author of metaphysical books. Lillian DeWaters had written more than 40 books. Her publication had
been printed in several languages and circulated in foreign countries as well in
the United States. Lillian DeWaters had
lectured, giving private instruction at her home and at the Hotel Astor, New
York City. Lillian DeWaters was
well known for her spiritual healing.
She taught that you are Perfect Now, and that you have all the gifts of God Now. As you read Lillian’s writing you will understand her transition. She writes about how she studied the Bible and Christian Science study for 2 years, and then the Light came and she understood. She shares her experience in The Voice Of Revelation of why she left Christian Science Church. She writes “I recall an early experience when I did not know my way out of a certain dilemma. I seemed to be in sudden great pain. Sitting alone, I wondered what to do about it. I began to ponder how I could feel pain if God is all, how I could even have a false belief; how pain could seem to be or I could in any way be connected with it. I could not deny that I was feeling pain, or could I reconcile pain with God; or did thought of another power beside God occur to me. In utter desperation and abandonment, I threw out my arms, calling to God aloud, “Which is true, God or pain?”
I remember how instant the answer—it seemed to come as I was still speaking. Louder than any thunder, came the vibrant, ringing words, “There is nothing true but Truth.” As certain as the Voice Itself, I knew, I understood, I was free—filled with an exquisite glory. The more I turned to God for my answers, the further I turned away from doctrines and practices which taught nothing of Self-Light and Self-Revelation, which to me was the most important thing of my whole life. Finally, I left organization, and soon afterwards—1924—I wrote my book, “The Finished Kingdom,”
She taught that you are Perfect Now, and that you have all the gifts of God Now. As you read Lillian’s writing you will understand her transition. She writes about how she studied the Bible and Christian Science study for 2 years, and then the Light came and she understood. She shares her experience in The Voice Of Revelation of why she left Christian Science Church. She writes “I recall an early experience when I did not know my way out of a certain dilemma. I seemed to be in sudden great pain. Sitting alone, I wondered what to do about it. I began to ponder how I could feel pain if God is all, how I could even have a false belief; how pain could seem to be or I could in any way be connected with it. I could not deny that I was feeling pain, or could I reconcile pain with God; or did thought of another power beside God occur to me. In utter desperation and abandonment, I threw out my arms, calling to God aloud, “Which is true, God or pain?”
I remember how instant the answer—it seemed to come as I was still speaking. Louder than any thunder, came the vibrant, ringing words, “There is nothing true but Truth.” As certain as the Voice Itself, I knew, I understood, I was free—filled with an exquisite glory. The more I turned to God for my answers, the further I turned away from doctrines and practices which taught nothing of Self-Light and Self-Revelation, which to me was the most important thing of my whole life. Finally, I left organization, and soon afterwards—1924—I wrote my book, “The Finished Kingdom,”
Lillian de Waters , of Stamford, Connecticut, was another Christian Science practitioner to win distinction after leaving the church. Lillian DeWaters, student of MBE spoke often of Ontology [1]. Her first books were through the Christian Science organization, and then she went out on her own. [1]Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence, or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.
She wrote:
“… the difference between mental healing and spiritual or divine healing. Mental healing uses the power in the individual mentality with which to heal, saying that the individual mentality is God. Mental healing is a process of thought, wherein the healer sends from his own mind thoughts of health, strength, power, peace to the mind of another who has called upon him for help, or, in the case of self-healing, wherein the individual would help himself.”
She also wrote:
” If one would hear, he must listen. If one would see, he must watch. If one would receive, he must be still.”
Here is what she had to say on her discovery of TRUTH:
“Today, nearly the whole world is giving attention, is some way, to the great triangle, ---the Truth (God), the student (man), and the problem (human existence). We all know that problems continually come and go and that man changes his ideas all the time. . . while to God, the Truth, everything remains invariable, and without shadow of turning.”
Her list of books:
• A Life Illumined
• The Christ Within: A Study Of The Absolute
• The Finished Kingdom (1924)
• Glad Tidings
• Good Cheer
• The Great Answer; the message of Ontology (1940)
• Greater Works (1946)
• The Hidden Truth (1919)
• I am that I am (1938)
• Inner Truth: Studies in Absolute Science
• Is Man God?
• Lifting the Veil
• Light of the Eternal
• The Living Way
• Message of the Absolute/The Practice of Reality
• The One; A Study of the Absolute (1927)
• The Perfect Vision
• Raise the Dead
• The Seamless Robe
• Science of Ascension: A Study of our Being
• Thinking Heavenward
• The Understanding Series Volumes 1 & 2
• Within The Veil: Sequel To Journeying Onward
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