Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Your state is your fate!



Vernon Howard (1918 – 1992) was an American author and spiritual teacher who presented the Wisdom of the Ages in the language of today. He is especially known for his clear, direct explanation of the cause of every human problem — and the sure cure.
Howard was born in Massachusetts in 1918. He began his writing career early in life and by 1965 was writing best sellers like The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, and The Power of Your Supermind. His books are classics in the field of inner development. His readership is estimated to be at least eight million people in several different languages.
In the 1970's Vernon Howard founded a school for authentic spiritual development called New Life Foundation . (See www.anewlife.org ). People traveled from all over the world to hear him speak. He continued to write and teach at New Life Foundation until his death in 1992. New Life Foundation is a bright place that continues disseminating his teachings today.
Vernon Linwood Howard
(1918 – 1992)
A Modern Mystic


 “What you want also wants you.
If you seek the celestial, the celestial also seeks you.
There are no unanswered requests in the universe.”— Vernon Howard


Psychic sleep is the cause of every human problem and disaster. It is sleeping people who suffer from heartache and loneliness, from fear and violence. Only self-awakening can end these sorrows. However — and please emphasize this point in your mind — man does not know he is asleep. So deep is his immersion in psychic hypnosis, that he instantly denies his actual condition. In other words, he does not know that he does not know. He spends his entire life under the gigantic illusion of being happy and productive, never once facing the terror in which he lives. Man huddles fearfully in a haunted house which he calls a castle.

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.



I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me. (ACIM, Lesson 304)

The world you see but shows you how much joy YOU have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as YOURS. And, if this IS its meaning, then the power to GIVE it joy MUST lie WITHIN you.(ACIM,T-21,2.7-8)

Projection makes perception; the world you see is what you GAVE it, nothing more than that. But, though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you, it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but will to change your mind ABOUT the world. Perception is a RESULT, and not a cause. And that is why order of miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.(ACIM,T-21,1.1-12)

pRE-eXISTENCE



THE doctrine of pre-existence is one that is an immediate corollary with the doctrine of immortality. If we believe in the immortality of the soul, it follows as a natural consequence that we must accept its pre-existence.
When Jesus said to his disciples, "I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am there ye may be also," he plainly affirmed the continuity of the individual soul, which not even death itself could obliterate or destroy. Hence, if we believe in the persistence of the individuality after what we call death, it ought not to be difficult for us to understand, or at least accept, its existence before that which we term birth.

Hints to Bible Study





 Agnes M. Lawson (1883-1940+)
The Colorado College of Divine Science, 1920.



Foreword
Introduction
Chapter I Elohistic Account of Creation
Chapter II Jehovistic Account of Creation
Chapter III The Temptation and Fall
Chapter IV Cain and Abel
Chapter V The Tower of Babel
Chapter VI The Deluge
Chapter VII The Call of Abraham
Chapter VIII The Sacrifice of Isaac
Chapter IX Jacob
Chapter X Joseph
Chapter XI Moses
Chapter XII Joshua
Chapter XIII Samuel
Chapter XIV Gaining the Kingdom
Chapter XV The Monarchy
Chapter XVI Bands of Love. Elijah and Elisha
Chapter XVII Bands of Love. Amos and Hosea
Chapter XVIII The Statesman Prophet - Isaiah
Chapter XIX The Poet Preacher - Jeremiah
Chapter XX A Cosmic Artist - Ezekiel
Chapter XXI The Shadow Christ - Isaiah
Chapter XXII The Return of the Exiles
Chapter XXIII Hebrew Literature
Chapter XXIV Christianity

Monday, October 29, 2012

Leave It With Him.




Mrs. C. L. Baum
(1865 – 1923)

Daisy May Davis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 3, 1856. She was married to Charles Lockhard Baum in Keokuk, Iowa, on June 14, 1877, and moved to Denver in 1901 where she joined the newly-formed Divine Science Church. She became a close friend of church founder Miss Nona Brooks, and entered the work of Divine Science by becoming a teacher, practitioner, writer, and a board member. She served as the church's First Vice President in 1916. She received her Primary Certificate from Nona's sister, Mrs. Fannie B. James, in 1905. Mrs. Baum made her transition on November 11, 1923.

Mrs. C. L. Baum
Studies in Divine Science
The Colorado College of Divine Science
Denver, Colo., 4th ed., 1924.

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unveil within your consciousness; and with every truth made apparent
an error will flee before it."   -
Malinda Cramer, Founder of Divine Science