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CHRIST IN YOU
SPIRITUAL RECONSTRUCTION
By
the Author of "Christ in
You"
PRIVATE DOWDING
Gof^ft/ifear
14:00
CHRIST
IN
YOU
NEW YORK
DODD,
**
men."
Pbov.
I call
and my voice
is to
the sons of
viii. 4.
" Blessed are your eyes, for they see and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye and to hear the things which see, and have not seen them Matt, xiii IG-IT. ye hear, and have not heard them."
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CONTENTS
PART I CHRIST IN YOU
LESSON
1 2
PAQV
3
6
4
5 6
7
8
Freedom by Understanding Christ the Life Prayer The Truth of Being God All in All, Get Understanding From Glory to Glory
10 14 18
22 25
29
9 Personality
33 36
10
The Book
11 Sin, Separateness 12
41
13 Christ in
You
53
56
59
17 Imagination
63
68 71 77 80
18 Idea
19 Heaven
20
Growth
CONTENTS
LESSON
p^QI
85
23
is
Love
90
24 Omnipresence
25 Omnipresence (continued)
92 97
.
26
27
102
106
113 116
120
125
4 Personality
The True Self 6 The True Selfishness 7 Dwell Deep 8 Unfoldment from Within 9 The Soul
5
130
134
138
141 145
2 "Thou in
3
151 154
158
4 "The Knowledge of God shall cover the Earth" 162 5 The Will of God 167 6 Workers together with God 170
7
9
173 176
Hb
gavb Himself
182
PAET
CHEIST IN YOU
CHRIST
IN
YOU
FIRST LESSON
A VOICE FROM THE HEIGHTS
AM
of expression, but I
who seem
himself.
to be in the
man
does not
know
We
You
is
form; this
I will ex-
plain by illustration.
When an
1 1 Oor.
li.
artist paints
9, 10, 14.
CHRIST IN YOU
reality,
is
within himself.
The
real
much more
No
He
does
thing of
its life,
it is
far removed
from his
reality.
ideal.
There
is
plane,
work
ate
show forth higher laws, to breathe entirely from the plane of spirit,
is to
anew from the very centre of all life, to make one the kingdom of earth and the kingdom of heaven. You are not to think of yourself and the universe now visible to you as real. It is
this that constitutes the difference
between
us.
Just
how
all
your
finest
not the
to the
you
will discover
life
knowledge of a
When
human
this consciousness
race,
you
is
will be
simply a
larger consciousness.
Heaven
God.
ity,
is
The Absolute
finite
is
mind,
As you emerge
true
life
Thank God
for
NOW.
been,
Learn
first
and
the
Your present
life
condi-
Make
now.
SECOND LESSON
FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING
is
not untell
Your
Scriptures
you that
all
How
slowly
we
learn that
are one.
free
Do away
witli
Stand out
and
We,
too,
wonder why we
is all life,
w^ere so
God
bondage, yet
You
ns.
them
this
to
We
are permitted to
come
say,
you at some
it.
cost,
we
We
1 Jer.
want
xvL
to help
19
;
you
Prov.
to live
v. 21,
life.
13.
17, xxxii.
xv. 3
Heb.
iv.
FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING
Begin by obedience to the dictates of the
within yourself;
it
\\dll
spirit
This
is
not easy, as
man
by a
this
false personality,
us,
for
ity.
of the senses
It is
sometimes
an angel
of light, so
much does
you can
al-
ways distinguish it from the spirit, however, if you remember what I say. The ^ voice of Christ
is fearless, all
shadow
Hold
There
ex-
no other
the best
way,-^
cept in name.
it is
One
God
is
Father, and
You ^ have
live
;
God
is
continually speaking.
being.
In
2
3
Him we
Johu
.TohH xvi. 33
xiv. 6.
Rev.
18.
Luke
x. 19.
CHKTST IN YOU
Many who
are working
:
among
"
How is
"
And
why?"
We
would
tell
when
Son
of
Man cometh.
The soul
this
period of apparent
it evolve.
degradation
and
ig-
norance can
Make
you
will
them
all.
Do
who weep,
God.
You
We
all
over
the earth
by secret ways.
;
Above
6
'
all things,
Gal. V. 16.
FREEDOM BY UXDERSTANDING
you do
this
will
become con-
scious of
harmony
your surroundings.
Keep
men,
your hearts
God and
If
to all
and we
simply
in
will
derstand what
;
we
say, wait;
we
but
we beg you
to realize
our teachings
your
lives.
THIKD LESSON
CHRIST THE LIFE
THE
beginnings.
It is
is
It
knows nothing
deal with
to help
It is
we must
Perhaps
it
would be as well
business of
life for
you
the
kingdom
of
God
avoid both
these
extremes
would be
all
and to
around you.
in your heart, the true place of under;
Hold
1
Matt. xiv. 23
Mark
1.
10
11
the heart
away and
stagnation
To
spirit,
impossible.
The
activity within.
waste and
hindrance.
As you
life
breath of
by
its silent,
orderly activity.
tell
We
but
you
of future events,
we can
your present
Hold the
you under-
God never
plane,
fails.
spiritual, substantial,
and you immediately function from the and only real. All must
Job xxxiii.
4.
12
is
CHRIST IN YOU
complete
complete,
work
unselfish,
all
impersonal.
^nter into
may
It is
The evolution of
spirit
terial is the
of creation.
God
that
heart of yourself.
I
want you
to give
some part
of the
day to
this
and balance
First,
I repeat this, as it is so
you
bet-
ter understanding of
insight.
heart of
will
spirit;
is
You can understand how highly important this when I tell you that the brain is fed by the
element has become ruler over the
spirit of the living
;
spirit; a finer
grosser,
and the
God
breathes
Pg. xvi. 9,
margin of R.V.
Ps. Ixxiii.
2(>.
13
am making
command
and in
all places,
heeding
Do
ment.
give
of
it.
This
is
nourishis
Take what
He who
lives is
brought
speaking
you
in
to this very
moment
your
your hearts.
Awake,^
FOURTH LESSON
PRAYEE
PRAYER
of
life.
is to
ment
in all worlds.
I think
we may now
see
as
you have
ig-
You
" I
say, in Australia.
is
one
with God's
will,
whole being
God-energy?
but how
The prayer
God
afar
off.
itself.
Although something
the
maid
alone,
when He entered
PRAYER
"Talitha cumi/' and you too must be
clear, positive.
15
definite,
Enter
for your friend this and never see or hear anything simple faith
God accomplished
else.
Restfully,^
and without
in the
name
of Christ Jesus.
Now
I will tell
There
is
neither dark-
God
is not,
We
as
many
times.
you were
and
deaf.
xinder-
may
stand, but
ties.
words
fail to
Your
vi. 6.
faith in
God
your
life
and power.
Matt.
Mark.
xi. 24.
16
CHRIST IN YOU
With^ true prayer you shall ask what j'ou will, and remember, uotliiug ^ is yours unless you take and possess. We have never known true prayer
to fail.
Do
God
The
spirit within is
one with
God and
I
Christ;
how
then can
God
be afar off?
who have
Thy Kingdom come" in every heart and life. For he who knows God in his own heart and in farthest space
would have you pray always:
is at
one with
all nations,
and
all.
west.
and your
We
may
would help
you
poise, that
yon
life,
live
enter
;
Matt. xxi. 22 John xvi. 24 Josh. xvi. 4, xvm. 3 1 Kings xxli. 3 Obad. 17. Luke xvlii. 1, xxi. 36 ; Rom. xit 12 ; Eph. vL 18
;
1 Thesa.
T. 17.
PRAYER
into
rest.
17
limitations.
Cease from
first
time
Re-
member our
you always
lesson You
always
are,
and
now.
will be.
Try
to realize this
The blessing
ever.
of
God
is
FIFTH LESSON
THE TRUTH OF BEING
THERE You
^
is
nothing in
life
you need
fear.
will
at all
We
want
own
now.^
It is
wrong
What
spirit
is
Let
me
cannot be
from without.
Let
it.
1
Let
Ps.
you take
7,
posses-
xct
vi. 2.
Ps. xxxvii.
margin of R.V.
2 Cor.
Rom.
vUi. 11,
18
19
You must
this
be true and
Word
that speaks.
Word,
cause of
all.
We
help yourself.
Eemember
through these
lesit
from within.
The
spirit
hope of glory or
glori-
ousness.
Your ^
all truth.
and brain
edge of
The moments
all
of healing
and
and
had ceased
to be
still.
to touch you,
had learned
Oh
is
Gal.
12.
Col. 7 1
Hab.
ii.
20.
20
CHRIST IN YOU
here
just
it
diffi-
when you
are adult.
Many
loved ones
That
may
self,
be safe from
worst enemy
may
death
it-
and more
^^
works
of
God
rest,
will be
John
X. 10.
11
Gen. I 31.
10
21
triumph and a
joy.
The
effect of this
So
^^
much
ness.
We
^^
pray
that
you
may
still
truly
say:
"
Awake
or asleep, I
am
with Thee.''
margin of
li.V.
Ps. xyi.
7.
cxxxix. 18.
SIXTH LESSON
GOD ALL IN ALL
So far we have
In-
living knowlto-
wards
sin,
sickness,
and death.
I?
Now we
ap-
Why am
answer
are,
is
The
tence:
still
Avhole
You
because
God
is;
but as
man
is
own
standpoint.
In the place
where you
your work.
are, there is
to this time
and place
23
known
your
By your own
indwell-
make real the plane of shadow and confusion. Working from the same spiritual standpoint,
there will be no separation between us and you.
In
reality,
there
is
is
no
division.
Your world
sense of fear
This
is
falsity,
ehaos.
You
Hold an
attitude of
and mind.
It is spoiled to
lost.
The good
is
The
kingdom
the
very heart of
God
the Creator.
Your work
We earnestly watch and pray for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth.
creative.
It will be the
iMatt.
xiii. 33.
24
stance,
to
CHRIST IN YOU
from confusion to order, from weakness
power
but, above
life.
all else, to
the w^holeness
is
or unity of
highest,
the
work that you have undertaken to do from the beginning. I would here recommend
that you begin with your immediate circle, as the
See and
know only
Your
In
know only
the good,
is
Do
not be
down by appearances, but rather maintain an attitude of steadfast hope towards all who
seem at a low stage of development, seeing
al-
as for yourself,
for good.
work with everything that makes Your reason for being on the earth
There are
now
is
God
is
love incarnate.
Peace
I
is in
Behold,
make
all
SEVENTH LESSON
GET UNDERSTANDING
T^HE
ness.
more we know
infinite
of
The
Even the dewdrop obeys a law and fulfils the eternal purpose. As you evolve,^ you discern
these higher laws
them.
It is
you could
interior worlds,
fellow-beings.
God has endowed you richly. You have made mistakes, because you have not known yourselves. The mighty eternal love is
seeking expression everywhere.
You
irroT.
ask
i.
"
ii.
What
1-11,
viii.
is
the most
practical
xxvUi.
5.
2, 3,
25
26
CHEIST IN YOU
of healing the
method
at
body?
"
exact
degree
of
Thus,
word
only.
Him was
enough.
fail
:
This
is
either be-
The
'^
great
you
sees,
really help.
Love
perceives as never
man
method.
We
own
loving
spiritual
taking
"
no
John
Matt.
ix, 7.
viii. 8, ix, viii.
20-22.
4
6
Matt.
16
Luke
iv.
18, 19.
John
Matt.
xiii. 34.
X. 19.
GET UNDERSTANDING
you in that hour."
soul,
sible to you.
27
Love
with
all
your heart,
is
impos-
body in
all
men. Your body is perfect in spirit (substance), and every part of the material body
should act in obedience to the spiritual, the
only
real.
When
order,
it
remember your
and
call
into manifestation
^
by the word
of power.
The
surely
failure.
Later on,
of
diate.
The
man
will
assert
and
will
become
ruler.
Christ
and
^^
His
feet.
i Cor. xiii.
Luke i. 37 R.V., iv. 32 A.V. 9 Rom. viii. 11, 19 R.V. Eph. 10 Rom. xvi. 20,
8
;
i.
19, 20,
23 R.V.
28
CHRIST IN YOU
Gix)wth into
is so
God
^^
is
work-
fail.
EIGHTH LESSON
FEOM GLOEY TO GLORY
WE
'^
first
its
standing.
I
You have
learned to say,
It
am
spirit/' " I
am
to create."
would be
im-
the race
now
make our
is
The race
the I am,
at present
of the great
little
and only
life,
knowing very
of its true
You
we can only
you
The
it
finest earth-music
lead you to
30
1
CHEIST IN YOU
have used this very crude illustration to
ever beyond our highest ideal.
He
is
Here,
of de-
Every stage
men
finds
Him
last.
Today the conception is higher than it has ever been, and yet you see and know only ^ as men dimly groping in darkness and mist. God ever
becomes more lovely as vision clears every height
;
we climb
greatness
and
calls us to
And
yet His
greatest
when
it is
lowliest atom,
when
The
the Father-Mother
God
lifts
heart of love.
realization of this
^
fills
us with
is
our God
God according
cry,
to
your
The world,
was
an-
jfc>s.
xcv. 3.
31
is
always willing to
Present un-
of the fulness of
life,
of its
all
its
fulness, that^
your
There
is
no mysfill
tery in this.
is
your
life.
Jesus did
not draw
down
life
He
life
knew Himself
I
of Jesus as
self.
you
live
day
say
is finished,"
is
and
" they
shall all be
one.''
God
everywhere
fulfilling
Himself;
As Jesus
the Christ
7
was
Jotin
i.
18.
Col.
iii.
4.
John
xvii. 13,
9.
Ps. xvi.
32
CHRIST IN YOU
we
here, as there, ourselves, for
die.
we have
Matt. X. 2y,
NINTH LESSON
./
PERSONALITY
TKANSITION
but
rather
mean
loss of identity,
greater
individuality.
is full of limi-
Personality as understood by
tations.
If
^
man
Jesus
knew
this
of
He knew His
I
^
^
personalto re-
come
and
will
power.
He come
again to
all
men
in
His omnipotence.
I
1 2
John
John John
xiv. 16.
xvi. 7.
John
xiv. 7-11.
33
34
spirit is
CHRIST IN YOU
our
first
and
real foundation.
It has
it
many
is
the one
and only
life.
Man on
the plane of
mind the
as person.
tried to
wisdom
of God.
Man
God
In
all these
things
you must
spirit,
live, think,
As
your thoughts.
is
You
learn of
Him who
of
was and
and highest
in His lowliness.
vision
you become
filled
mighty hope.
Personality
draw upon
you
is
entirely unlimited.
exist because
God
is,
and
all
'^
He
of
has
is yours.
People seem
to fail for
is this:
want
vitality.
e 1 Cot,
ii.
The explanation
10.
7
each of you
Luke
xv. 31.
PERSONALITY
is
35
the planes
all
of spirit, soul,
and body.
from the
soul covering,
and manifestation
work.
the
this great
and perfect
is
and
all
your future
made
You must
consecrate
He ^ may
will,
life.
Dan.
vii. 15,
margin.
Pbil.
ii.
13.
TENTH LESSON
THE BOOK
AT
selves.
this point
we
Books, words,
What ^ you
The
spirit
by
its
potency,
to
the word of
itself.
is
only the
The
Word
God
is
it is
also sweeter*
channels
it
36
THE BOOK
is
87
Inspiration
is pos-
men.
empty words,
come
and
glorious truth.
God has
made
it
bread,"
and gave
:
When
mean-
and
significant
seeking
we are to bring reality and truth where nothingness and limitation have made chaos and darkness. Then we see the necessity for light God's first spoken word at the Creation ligiit.^
tain us in very deed.
In all things
Written words are not the only means of communication, for the
si)irit
man
4
i
may
be
11;
John
vi.
32-51.
Gen.
3.
38
CHKIST IN YOU
all its fulness.
your experience in
It is the first
The illumined
moveL through
all life,
inward peace, a
all things,
real
a light
which cannot be
The
Added
to this is another
mighty factor
the
it al-
It holds the
ways
wall.
it
by
their belief in
ing of a law
it
unknown
The working
everything into
out
as follows
You can
it
lift
becomes transmuted
and
purified,
metal of earth.
THE BOOK
I
39
am
lift it
into the
becomes
fire
purified,
transmuted;
pure
this,
of
but
This
is
what
it
You have
is
this place,
that
be-
read
it
much
seek
We
things,
are very
much
in
and
if
law
is
effect in
your
lives.
You have
any one
whom you
of blessing.
every ex-
Rev.
iii.
18.
John
vi.
2 Cor.
iii.
6.
40
CHRIST IN YOU
soil,
for
who
to
in Heaven.
I
know
God has
inspired
to reveal, in our
own
life.
Above
all
things,
we want you
wonders
tion,
^
and God
is
doing
revela-
among you.
^^
Rejoice in the
hope.
new
abounding in
The new
and fear
will reveal
Have no
doubts.
Launch
out
^^
not.
Eternity
8 1
now.
Prov. xxix. 18.
lo
Sam.
iii.
Josh.
iii. 5.
ii
Rom. Luke
xv. 13.
v. 4.
ELEVENTH LESSON
SIN,
SEPARATENESS
TRUTH
had
action.
possible.
is
the eternal
is
Word.
There
no
beginning.
As
you
unfold
You cannot
see
new
When
is
not easily
broken.
God and
of all men.
may know
world
1
yourselves.
we come, that you Our words can only help do this. Our love for your
very great.
Do
41
42
side help,
CHEIST IN YOU
however high, however good.
it is
You
impossible for
mind
of
man
to affect Spirit in
any way.
greater
The work
to be
done in you
is of far
was thinking. There must be silence when God speaks. The Christ within you is the same yesterday,^ today, and for ever. Wait
the mind
2
in silence
may
I,
but
the Christ of
God
is
your
this for
many
Word
you
feel
the up-
That
^Gen.
Ezek.
a *
lii.
sin
xviii.
may be
1,
22
Gal.
11-17.
20.
John
Syriac
V., "
He
SIN,
SEPAKATENESS
^
43
cleansing, a putting
tender,
oft:
new
realization of Christ
may
not be imevil
is
Sin and
are.
Sin
chaos.
It
would dare
up
its
king and
make its kingdom in our midst; but the Christ, now consciously real to us, as an inward fact, is greater than we know, and shall put all things
under
ing,
^
Ilis feet.
^
His very
filling
life in
us
is re-creat-
making
new, or
God
thus, as of old,
^^
the thieves
of possession.
^^
great
The
^^ all is
and death.
7
Col.
9.
10
John
ii.
15.
8 1
11 Ps. xUi. 1, 2.
Rom.
12 Ps. U. 1
Col. U. 14.
44
CHRIST IN YOU
is
its
^*
results
the
^^
root is
killed
of
life
flows on.
The
suf-
be turned
We
the compensations of
perfect,^^
The wavs
is
of
God
are
conscious of the
lifting
Love
is
Love requires
to obey even
is
^^
readi-
obedience,
to do its
unto
the place
your
All must go to
Greater love
^^
hath no
man than
all
this.
Love
is
that is highest is
nourished and
life,
fed.
however degraded
vi. 7.
1, 2.
may seem
i7lsa.
is Phil.
i
1.
to you.
Love
iGal.
a*
IS
19.
7, 8.
ii.
John
xv. 13.
2 Sam,
xxli. 31.
SIN,
much, and
you, for
cease
^^
SEPAEATENESS
and
45
work through
will never
^^
He
until
of
heaven.
30 1
John
It.
16-19.
ai
Matt
vi.
la
TWELFTH LESSON
"
HEAVEN
go, it
^
just
where you
women from
ery,
time to time
^ is
The
is,
first
thing
we
and
al-
or passing
over
We
we
evermore.
love, or
is
ours.
To enter heaven
become
iLuke
2
xvii. 2.
xvii. 17-19.
46
"
47
more
There
We
are
nearer to you,
is
together.
No
when
belief in distance
possible on the
it
spiritual plane.
In the
clearer light
of limitation.
ours and
all is yours.
To
become spiritually-minded
suggestion of
good.
is life
^
and peace.
No
Thank God
glorious liberty^
be-
ing set
free, old
Be Do not hug
your chains;
let go.
Rom.
Gal.
viii. 6. V.
19-21.
8 1
47-
Rom.
vUi. 21.
48
CHRIST IN YOU
Tlie
waiting channel.
whole race
This work
is
being lilted
is
going on in
We
may know
the freedom
God
body.
is
and
with
The knowledge
is
of God's oneness
Way.
you have not understood me about mind
This
is
I see
and thinking.
The sense
medium
for spiritual
separateness
Crammed by
false
when
real bread
and
true
It is the
power to bring
Every
into subjection
^^
John
vl. 53.
10
2 Cor.
x.
"
'^
49
lest
atom
of
The sense
of
^^
We
beg you to
It
is
let the
mind
wisdom. It
is love,
and It
^*
So
shall
you
live
unto
^^
Christ.
You
will read
and understand
in your hearts.
11 1
Cor. xu.
il.
13
Ezek. xxxvii.
12 Phil.
5.
1*
Rom.
vli. 11.
THIRTEENTH LESSON
CHRIST IN YOU
DO
that you
heal-
may
You can
ap-
quickly; this
is
At
first,
when seeking
you
will
your
life;
until finally
man and
anew and for ever, enemy through God's work is never uncerand
is
It is sure,
steadily work-
ing
out
good.
" Therefore
50
mine
own arm
CHEIST IN YOU
brought salvation."
^
51
little
headway, you
this asj^ect
kingdom
of
heaven.
is
The
little
in the earth
darkness of matter, by
own
its
no power, were
within the seed.
of the
Now we
of evil
understand something
its friendly uses,
meaning
and
that
I
is
is
it
the
medium
for growth
and
which
Without
the
seed,
and
left to itself,
ductive.
1 Isa.
lix.
16.
Matt.
xiii.
31.
52
CHRIST IN YOU
so-called
evil
The
has
is
the symbol of
When
the fulness of
new
earth, one
united home.
man and
God
are one.
xxl
1, 4.
* Rev.
FOURTEENTH LESSON
OUT OF DARKNESS
LIGHT
the
THE
ties of
last
contains
germ
the
promise
of
man
the possibili-
We
would have
spiritual
is
often
many
imperfections,
owing
to long ages
as
of
You
is
the rightful
owner and
king,
Man
has tried
to
to alter conditions
Wherever
spir-
itual forces
plane, the
work
nay, eternal.
An
un-
54
CHRIST IN YOU
is
conquered body
be completed
cerneth Him.
an unfinished
will perfect
^
life.
All must
He
in
As vou grow
is
understanding of the
realities,
^
We
must
first
see,
ideal,
likeness.
at this point,
how we
explain
and
al-
The unbecomes
developed
man
will
I
later,
and he too
will to be
reckoned with.
He
knowledge
As you have
strug-
gled with the less real, so will he, and you will
IPs. cxxxvui.
z 8.
srs. xvU.
15.
Hab. U.
55
kingdoms
kingdom
souls
So much of
a quality of
your suffering
faith, hope,
its
and
ulti-
is
known by
oppo-
mate good.
is
known because of the darkness of night. row is ever making channels for joy.
* Fs. U.
Dan.
vii.
13, 14.
FIFTEENTH LESSON
JESUS CHRIST
THE
RACE
MAN
TIIE
pure in
heart,^
heart
is
or as
we would rather say, the doorway of divine wisdom Blessed ^ are the heart, for they shall see God/' The
'^
of God.
Our
God.
explanations
There are
many
many
Trust the
in-
ward and spiritual guide in all these matters, and not the mind of man. We know that the
sacrifice
on the cross has for your world the deepIn that sublime act Jesus the
est
meaning.
Prov.
X. 10.
V. 8.
2 8
Matt.
Prov. U.
17.
56
57
cannot
now comprehend
burst,
the greatness of
Bonds were
freedom.
its
its
How much we
meaning!
It has
greatness and
its love.
From our
results.
side
we
see
something more of
its
The
principalities
harm
you
against
own
will.
Jesus
He might
makes
and cast
The cross
divinity.
was the
bolizes
lifting
up
of
In that myste-
its
holy anointing
its
Christhood.
We
when we remember the greatness of that work. We have much to learn about this, and you can
4
Eph.
iii.
16-21.
12.
i Pet.
iii.
19,
6Eph.
Tl.
58
never
CHRIST IN YOU
know
the full meaning of sacrifice until
sinless
and
selfless
Christ-
Jesus Christ
is
God.
He
He alone knew all God's meaning for you. When visible in the flesh He was the God-man/ a Man
beginning as the eternal Christ of God.
for all men, loving versal
is of
God and
Man.
In
Him
He
tree
and
of
vine.
He was
truly
Son
of
of
God and
Son
is
7
Man.
1 Oor. xv.
47
Acts
xvii. 31
ii.
5,
SIXTEENTH LESSON
TRUTH
IS
STEADFAST
IMMOVABLE
you must exclude
allow an
TO
receptive.
Keep
perfect
any influence to
and
in-
Try
own
them of
yourself.
It is far
good.
self
and
^
us.
You
all
right
and circum-
stance.
Isa.
XX vi. 3
Vs. cxii.
7.
21 Cor.
59
iv. 8.
60
CHRIST IN YOU
is
much
identity
of God.
This
is
God's
with
Only by withto to
He
really
come again
His disciples
was
make
of these
ordinary
men
Church.
could
in us
He become
all,
them and
theirs.
^
am
of our life
and
you
may
great cosmic consciousness, the inner illumination which will cover the whole earth as the
sea.
limitations of time
itual freedom.
You
TRUTH
IS
STEADFAST
61
The words
sciousness
is
unity of
man
with
man
in God.
less yourself
You
will in
no sense be
but you
and understanding.
The
suffering of
some
is
How
who
carry the
all
men!
the Prince
of Peace.
We
life
may
of Days.
There
Cometh.
is
Rest in
age, the
hojje.
is
Be strong^ and
coming
^^
of good cour-
day
the
night
hell
is
past.
In
^^
the darkest
and outermost
is
God.
There are planes below yours, some even unconscious of God, but all shall be redeemed.
Every
Ps. cxxxiU.
John
xiii. 34.
Ezek.
xlvii. y,
12.
i.
6 Isa. lii. 7.
7.
Isa. Ix. 6, 7.
7
Rom.
xiii.
12.
8,
Daa
vii. 22.
n Ps.
cxxxix.
Ixixvi. 13.
62
CHRIST IN YOU
a victory
falter
on
upward
with you.
fall,
others fall
glorious oppor-
Kead
^^
the
continually,
and wait
silently as the
ing to you.
12
Matt.
V. vi.
and vU.
SEVENTEENTH LESSON
IMAGINATION
HP HE
tion
body
is
of spirit,
spirit is ruler.
At first you may not see work begins the instant you func-
Do
not be
results.
dis-
couraged
see
as
was
at not seeing
of healing
now
that the
work
was going
on,
You
you will
fnondlinoRs.
ThinVt's
work
in
you
is
souls, the
are bound.
Your body
ment
wholly.
You ask
is
"
What
is
thought? "
Perhaps you
Thought
It
all
phenomena.
64
is
CHRIST IN YOU
not a mental concept, though
it
The thought
in
The worlds
nature
are
are
love.
myriad forms
You
At
which
the
life,
true
life evolves.
all,
It is the only
One,
crea-
first
cause of
own
tion,
but
self-fxistent,
ever
This
self
many
variety,
but
always
One.
enemy, the senses, would pervert, making separation even of the expressed Being, until, as a
result of ages of ignorance,
man
has dared to
God
life.
This
itself
out
IMAGINATION
in
65
earth
life.
the
tiniest
detail
of
your
it
fire,
water, and
also holds a
it
This
is
the one
life,
densest matter.
tal process,
Man
(We
divine thought.
from our
side.)
Man
it
he immediately begins
make
it concise,
gives
it
a form, clothes
by
whole.
truth.
there
is
but one
This
is
the truth.
a work for
time.
You would do
receiving by
beliefs that
^
clearing the
mind
of limitations,^
ing even
as a little child.
We see so much
3.
Matt. xviU.
8.
66
of humanity.
intellect, for it
light.
CHEIST IN YOU
The
spirit of
God quickens
the
**
Open out
is
the flower
own
they
will
hidden forces.
Consider well the flowers of the
field;
do not
toil
You
and the
It is
effect in the
and
eth
is
^
in in
your environment.
God
that work-
you to
will
and
to do.
Man's mentality
seed
unfolding, the
work
of creation begins in
thought
was
your
planet.
it
When
the
requires a place of
call
imagination
is
the ground
You
will
which
4
8
is
1.
John
Matt.
vl.
28.
PMl.
ii.
13.
IMAGINATION
Your Scriptures unfold
67
when they
of
and speak
mirror
imagining mischief.^
pure imagination
It is the
of God.
that you
may awake
meaning
in His likeness.
to
It will
reveal God's
your understanding.
Your imagination is God's best gift. The heart they and the imagination are closely related The heart and the imagination act and re-act.
should be pure.^^
effort,
but
you
You
thoughts
of God, your
mind
You
is
This lesson
you read.
God
Ps. Ixil. 3.
10
Matt.
v. 8.
n Jer.
xxix. 11.
EIGHTEENTH LESSON
IDEA
THE
EXPRESSED IMAGE
SUNDAY
to your
was a day of great joy to me. The seventh day has a deep meaniDg for
There
is
your planet.
a correspondence
Sunday with
day
is
Real prayer
is its
answer.
its
It attracts
by
need.
In our last
was
the
the imagination.
Our next
lastly, the
is to
consideration
is
idea.
First,
and
outcome of both
is
being.
What
Are
69
^
Do you
make
I of
want
to
clear to
God
idea.
this,
and look
You
will be filled
fulfil all ^
is
The end
all
^
^
separation.
and nine
all
shall be in the
kingdom
is per-
and nothing
less.
clinging to the
matter
is
belief.
Good
real.
spirits,
often
still live
on the
like to
to
them
They
on the material
all ig-
plane.
1 Isa.
This
Iv.
is
a hindrance to them,
8, 9.
Matt
V. 17.
;
11.
.
70
CHRIST IN YOU
is,
norance
experiences.
Give
more time
to quiet, that
the reflection of
God
"
He
has said
Be
"^
The growth
is go-
As you wait
beareth fruit.
Close the door of your closet against the suggestion of the senses, that God's Idea
fest in your body, for "
if
may
mani^^
Full, rich
God.
This
is
vitality of the
whole universe
is
no longer sepa-
own
God -given
5
channels.
8 Ps. Ixii. 5. 9
6
7
2 Cor.
iii.
18.
Lev.
xi. 44.
lo
NINETEENTH LESSON
HEAVEN
IS
WITHIN YOU
MAY
I
you some
experience of
my
own.
think you
know
is different for
almost every
init.
and
is entirely
The
an
dawn
is
It is
meant that
awakening
that you
are,
God everywhere
into
all
harmony and
will enter the
is in
peace.
God grant
where you
may begin
this experience
then
you
more
when
that which
part shall
be done away.
is
Cor.
xiii. 10.
71
72
CHEIST IN YOU
and truth
descends
^
by
its
The
fire
in your Scriptures.
this
book the
reveals
medium
wisdom.
of interpretation wherein
If
God
rich
a place
of sacrifice.
Eead
My
transition
was
this I
my
friends.
For
thank God, as
my
dear ones
something of
my
joy.
This
we can
all
do.
What we cannot do
lose
that,
2
is to rid
you
of false beliefs.
you
find that
your own
is greater,
Heb.
xi. 4.
Ps. cxix.
HEAVEN
cle wider,
tiful
IS
WITHIN YOU
infinitely
73
more beau-
Have no
fear.
Fear
is
the cloud
dims the
to say "
all
spiritual
vision.
The^ angels
came
from
Fear not."
is
that
good.
It is
and can
^
love.
Man
is rising
evil,
the fear of
The truth
will set
you
that separates
man from
is
God.
aspiration.
I discovered this
when
was slow
self
to
comprehend that
had passed
soul, never so
much
I felt
alive as then.
Was
a delicious dream?
*Matt. xxviii.
8 1
5.
You
see,
much
of
my false
John
iy. 18.
74
belief
CnRIST IN TOTJ
clung to me.
I
had expected a
I
great,
"^
forgot
and His
feet; the
;
same Jesus.
How
but
when
is
w^e are
all
error
God
you there
God has
breathed the
breath of
had not
consciousness
scales
^
God.
My
my
it
eyes
could
The
inner
vision,
of being.
It w^as too
much
slept.
to enter into.
Then
I
was as
of the
though I
tell
awakening?
too!
Such an awakening
will be
yours
was
my
nature
Spir-
satisfied,
1
my
Luke Luke
Acts
ix. 18.
HEAVEN
itual truths
IS
WITHIN YOU
self.
75
but a part of
been
;
my
very
my
see
Now
you
why I give you my personal experience, that you may know that Heaven ^^ is indeed within.
It
was as
if I
real
life.
was
to learn,
now
Ever
God
is
without
rests in
Love never
enjoyment of
itself.
itself out,
me
I
^^
Christ.
We
is
you
I
all,
and long
to
possess.
want you
no separation between
We
are interior
Of them
I will not
speak
now.
10
Luke
xvii. 21.
u John
m.
17; Col.
i.
21,
76
It is
CHRIST IN YOU
a great joy to be able to reach yon with
these thoughts.
God
now.
Heaven the
Christ
is
whole of good
yours
whisper
is
answers, for
He
is
behind
all
He
also
fills all
space.
TWENTIETH LESSON
GROWTH EEAL AND UNREAL
THERE
easily enter.
is
an atmosphere of
rest
and
peace and
much deep
is
is
joy.
An
atmos-
phere of love
the one
we can most
fulfils
^
Everything
loving disciple.
Love
is
^
to
every law.
Love
and
Yet even
this expres-
God
is
You
tion, expansion,
and
real
Every good
world.
is closely
Growth
"
often
means a great
will
The meek
He guide in judgment.
Learn the greatness
The
I
meek
will
He
teach.''
Rom.
Cor.
xiii. 10.
I I
xm.
9, cxlix. 4,
Ps. XXV.
margin of R. V.
77
78
of humility.*
CHRIST IN YOU
The
little
child
is
;
all
uncon-
so also
must
the soul be
when
from the
and
You and they may be at different stages unfoldment. Be content to know that God is
and learn the secret of dwelling
in the midst,
may go
deep dow^n
a great work
going on.
on
work
Know^ that
all is w^ell,
though no
Seek the
men, bless
all;
thus
Un-
known
ing themselves in
* 1
e
Col. iU. 12
4.
Matt.
v. 3, 5.
1 Cor. iv. 5.
Matt.
79
actions, self-ag-
There
is
no
That which
is
You
are just
Spirit
to
do this work.
teach you
how
to build.
God cannot
and dead
fail if
you
are alive
to Christ within,
to all else.
Be not
Cor.
deceived,
11.
God
^^
is
11.
not mocked."
lo Gal. vi. 7.
m.
Rom.
vi.
TWENTY-FIRST LESSON
MATTER AND
ITS RELATION TO SPIRIT
THERE we
riety of ways.
is
always a moment in
life
when
and the
It
happens in a va-
Thomas dropped the false belief immediately, when he saw the truth; material beliefs dropped entirely away and never ruled him afterwards. Pilate knew, when face
to face with Christ, that he could never touch
the
real
life,
although he delivered
Jesus over
to the people.
He had
The whole
of truth is
No man
One
is fast slipping
away
the old
is
s
ity of matter.
1 2
There
John XX.
27, 28.
Luke xxm.
25.
80
81
to
the jjlanet.
and
is
Perpetual mo-
The
and continuous.
body
is
its
material
in
You
mineral,
and
pos-
vegetable,
and animal.
Thus man
all.
in the natural
This
is
not so of any
man
that he
may
all.
Y^'ou
terial,
appearances.
*
Gea.
i,
26.
82
CHRIST IN YOU
you know that
^
spiritual laws
perfect, for
are supreme.
is it
form?
While
you learn
itual weapons.
When you
you
will
spiritual world,
know
is
that faith
flesh
was
made
real to you.
While in the
you should
visible.
behind the
is
own by your
simple trust,
of faith, the*^
Have
faith, for
only by
can you
experi-
means
of revealing
you
man,
to yourself.
Have
faith in
God, faith in
We
Cor. iii. 16, 17, vi. 19. Matt. xvii. 20 Mark xi. 23, 24.
;
THeb.
xl.
83
a law
I will explain.
You
see
now only
houses,
part
that
etc.,
the
things
before
yon,
churches,
thought.
itual idea.
He
spir-
The
There
is really
In
many
is
is
utterly unlike
beautiful,
the appearance.
for
much more
man
Now
you have
who
says
This build-
ing or picture
of
is
my
idea."
If he could only
faith he
Thus
at pres-
that you
may
un-
and
84
It is
CHRIST IN YOU
a wonderful time for you now.
You
are
Now,
for your
body
may
You become
is
but remember,
it
you youryou
no longer
to
It is for
it is
done in
me "
^
in you, to will
and
Creation is
God manifest
in the flesh.
God
is
with you.
ii.
8 PliU.
13.
TWENTY-SECOND LESSON
"my thoughts
SUPPOSE
if
people only
I
as
would be amazed to
as powerful
far
Yes,
cases
that every
thought
deed,
and
in
many
more
it is
effective
You
are
seem to
be.
is
the innermost
of yourself.
when our
cast into
self.
^
is
it-
the
kingdom of
Yea, truly
many
my
2
85
86
CHRIST IN YOU
You
is
will find
your treasure
with God.
you that
Let His
is
the continual
I tell
God
is
"
are
"^
one."
Do
Read them
till all
that
is
am
You need
find
thank God
are, if
where you
you
can
could only
you would
your own.
^
may
receive
the answer.
Jesus Christ
I say:
spirit.
They are
ceas-
I
"^
would say
life
Pray without
ing
the
prayer.
Live in
God
in the smallest
detail.
3
Do
vi.
Matt.
21.
vi.
03.
4 .John X. 30.
Thess.
v. 17.
Mark
x.
5L
"
MY THOUGHTS
is
'^
87
Is
The
really unselfish
and pure,
immediate help.
I
help you to
of right
know
until
^
and holy
holy, for
living.
it
Pause
Consider well
the
^'
command
Be ye
am
holy."
As you
prayer-
you
God
within.
You know them. Follow the derstanding only. You now have
The human race
is
spiritual un-
victory over
want
you
you on
^
earth,
and in the
flesh
:
that
is,
" This
is
my
beloved, in
whom
am
well pleased."
life
Study the
^^
be
sacri-
Lev. xix.
2.
lo
2 Cor.
iii.
15, 16.
Luke
lil.
22.
88
flee is
CHRIST IN YOU
revealed in all its greatness, the offering
all,
up
of all to save
and so
to
make
the union of
man
with
God
complete.
greatness of surrender?
no value until
are One
in
;
it
we
Him and
it is
versal life
You
maimed and hurt because of sin and suffering in your brother man, and again and again must the Son of Man be crucified until the great
are
at-one-ment with
God
takes place.
Your work is to co-operate with God, existing only in and drawing only from the real, the spiritual, that
^^
of healing, that
Even
live,
as in the nat-
so also
you must
revital-
So much
is in
God
blots out^^
ing
II
love.
Kev. XX.
He
2.
Him
''
MY THOUGHTS
fill ^^
''
89
that
self.
He may
to overflowing with
Him-
Watch and
13
pray.^^
Again
14
watch.
Matt.
V. 6.
TWENTY-THIKD LESSON
THE CENTRAL LIFE
IS
LOVE
this,
SEE
but
out
from outside.
To make
conclusions
truth from
itself.
finds its
answer in
What
physical
is
space?
You
are
learning on the
plane
thought
yourself
transference.
what
is
would influence?
ing of distance.^
fered with.
Have you ever asked between you and the mind you Positive thought knows nothIt
is
cannot be broken or
interits
There
no distance.
The only
Sim-
direction,
1
John
i.
IS
LOVE
91
Nothing
is lost
Space
is
separation.
Godj
until,
even in the
flesh,
to
dwell in
God and
absolutely nothing
outside God.
vision,
the most
High."
The tabernacle
afflictions
^
In
your
Even as work
life
gaining fresh
the unseen
and
substance.
^
Use
know,
and
let
your
lives flow
and
sister.
We
lives.
away by
up in human
hearts and
isa. Ix. 9.
Luke
vi. 46.
Rev. xxi.
3,
TWENTY-POUKTH LESSON
OMNIPRESENCE
ALL
is
hoped for
So mighty
^
is
good.
You
wealth.
where there
is
no corruption, and
your good
your real
now.
Re-
You
are
your future
joice that
self,
in Heaven.
joy.
We
would
The
il-
all
own
lives.
omnipresence.
God, who^
fills
all
space,
knows nothing
present.
Alpha and* Omega, the same yesterday and for ever. The whole human race
is
1
He
Matt.
vi. 19.
Luke
X. 20.
Rv. xxL
6.
P2
OMNIPRESENCE
is
93
meant
to understand this.
Let
me
explain.
You sometimes wonder at what seems loss of memory in us. We can recall anything of good that we wish. We learn the higher spiritual
laws very quickly, and there
explained by the words
is
one that
is best
At once we cease
from
To some who
When
certain
this,
amount in
the effect on
prospects,
rest.
They
presis
ent is enough.
To
and in
limits.
Day and
into
ent time.
law
the glorious
too full to
forward, since
we know
The
94
sufficiency is
CHRIST IN YOU
the actual present.
Think over
full.
^^
AM
^^
is
Just think a
moment what
be on your earth.
direct
To draw
or sins,
now
think what
it
would mean.
This
is
To
ent
come ^
was
to speak
Do you
youth?
am
the Lord,
see this
I"^
change
not.
wondrous
truth.
You can be
just as
God
43.
in the heart of
? iVlul.
z.
14.
John xL
ill.
6.
OMNIPRESENCE
humanity reaches out
divine consciousness.
to
95
man
until he
awakes to
of Christ
become actual
to
man,
ex-
He
fixion,
resurrection,
and
the
ascension.
Christ
must be
man from
for
^
from within.
Thank God
of God.
The evolution
*^
That
^^
they
may
be
one.'^
The understanding
would remove
In
mind would
it
would not
man
The sense of physical law makes both good and evil seem of equal power. Good must overcome ^^ evil by its own
does has any real vitality.
Col.
9
i.
27.
ix. 15.
10
ii
John
Dan.
xvii. 11.
iv.
2 Cor.
27
Rom.
xil. 21.
96
vitality.
real.
CHRIST IN YOU
In truth,
it i
will
understand.
Peace to
all.
TWENTY-FIFTH LESSON
OMNIPRESENCE {continued)
SO
that you
may
make
:
this statement,
which
was and is now. Man and not God made yesterday and will make tomorrow. This is to you the seventh month in the
year 1907.
born,
It is the
it is
and
Time cannot
pass.
There
is
no
past.
Man
is
new creation by the power of the living Christ. You may not understand at once, but you will. Can you conceive of Christ ageing? Have you
never
discovered
the
wonderful
fact
in
the
As
even so
^
it
doth not
yet appear
to physical or
mortal sense.
You speak
1
of us as the unreal.
2
The truth
is
John
iv. 17.
John
ill 2.
07
98
CHRIST IN YOU
We
find
many
tion on
your plane.
You
you
this possibility.
able to en-
gulf spirit
when
or ac-
Your
sicknesses,
your
wrong plane of being. The Fall is a present and not a past fact. Man's real fall is that he is content with the shadow of good. He still eats of the tree of good and ^ evil, and until
of your
the Christ
ever be at
fills
man
will
war with
and his
light is
God.
Man's understanding
breaking everywhere.
is clearer,
and
You can
s
Testament more
3
sym-
John
vi.
19.
*Ps.
xci. 10.
OMNIPKESENCE
bols
tlie
99
The
re-
Man makes
the quality of the land; the flow of waters increases or decreases according to laws hidden
within yourselves.
and
inner forces.
of spirit, for
Look
and being
of
man,
and
until
to Eden,
new
day
My
you
have
may
Son
highest. of
Blessed be
God
of God.
is
hidden
ingratitude
It is
brought bitterness.
Ixv. 25.
100
thoughts,
if
CHEIST IN YOU
they are the suggestions of the senses,
and
ashes.
Learn
oil
joy.
Even
^^
waters shall
the milk and
be sweet.
honey.
You
^^
shall partake of
^^
The
manna
is
at your
is
very
feet,
that
heavenly
manna.
Feed on
Him
in your heart
by
faith.
The very
abundance.
gifts
Lift
see.
Just
the
There
^^ is
no
want
and
the
and certain
hope.
If
filsa. Ixi. 3.
10
11
12
xxxiv. 10.
13
John
vi. 51.
OMNIPRESENCE
the senses, brought
101
of their
up against a wall
own
them.
clay.
fear,
and
falsity.
A
You
God consumes
Having your
not
slide.
God
is
with you.
God
is
di-
TWENTY-SIXTH LESSON
THE CONTROL OF SELF AND ENVIRONMENT
TIIE world
world,
is,
ful ijossibilities,
because
man
As man
evolves,
lifted into
a higher condition.
in
The seasons
de-
pend on God
ner mind.
to the in-
The world
some
regions, so
much
so that
man
is
subject to
to reign over
them.
If
you read
you
will find
much hidden
truth.
to rule
and
is
The world
Judg.
ix. 8.
102
103
you had a
tree or plant
under your
control, in time it
its
this.
you
this
The physical
governed by
its
own
For the
^
He had
self,
own
You
its
one
self.
To
effect this
selfless
^
and at
one Lord
and not
many.
There are spiritual treasures hidden in your
earth awaiting your appropriation.
These won-
when
vi. 4.
Mark
iv. 39.
Gen.
i.
26.
Deut.
104
CHRIST IN YOU
:
he says
"
My ^
punishment
is
greater than I
can bear."
you
man.
back to
your own.
You
truth
of being
the
omnipotence of God in
You
fest
are
now
wholeness and
love.
There
is
a great and
glorious
work
to be
Christ
to all
to do
is
and
this is possible
who have
your
spiritual control.
We
urge you
yours.
God never fails, and victory You will know exactly how to act as
part.
Take no thought
'^
only in
all
moment
word
On
of
all
thee
behind
me,
I say
Satan."
God
you can
prove Him.
He
Do you
5
a 9
Luke
Mai.
vii. 7.
Matt
X. 19.
10
10.
105
You
^^
receive by giving.
power
of blessing.
own way.
Luke vL Sa
TWENTY-SEVENTH LESSON
THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN
EENUXCIATION
joy
of
vision!
satis-
OH,
and heal
the
is
inexpressible
There
fying.
You
know how
live
to speak
in proportion as
you
up
to the high-
Renunciation
liberate stand
implies
for truth,
abandoning
all
else.
opens up before
existence.
^
It is not, as supposed,
the giving up of
rather with-
this
the
creation of mortal
that
ac-
John
xiv. 30.
6.
2 Cor. x.
196
107
You
life
lay
down
in order to
take up,
Hitherto
where
is
all
who
may
all,
to the
man
gives
win
may become
greater than
for
him there
nothing beyond.
This plane
is of
the senses.
and
finality.
The
The
spiritual
man has
failed to develop in
Thus the
is
tell it
known no more.
order that you
This
is true,
and we
in
may understand
The preservation
is
which
Jobn
X. 18.
PhU.
iil. 7,
8.
108
for
CHRIST IN YOU
you the beginning
life,
of
life.
am come
that
You
You
to
God
is
do
will.
your
work commences with the dawning consciousness of God. Your Scripplace of action, and your tures are full of this teaching; Jesus has gone
way
There
Follow
man
renounces
all,
How we
lift
How we
long to
ever.
No man
his
own
will
by
this choice
man
proves to
man
are
To enter
into truth, he
renounces
all
You
may
all
be
Thus you
X. 10.
ix.
see
how important
it is to live
John Luke
59
John
xxi. 22.
169
moment
We
hope to
teach you
you must be
the offspring of
truth.
There
:
is
Jesus said
"
The
life
and power.
These
may
will.
You may
but one
Rom.
yiii.
11.
PART
II
FIRST LESSON
" LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE
'^
WE
heart,
plane,
singleness
of
to be the pure
channel which
God desires.
Is it not
worth while
Our
^
message
is for
and
suffering,
and
are
God's intention.
Our message
lived.
will teach
you
you
how
to attain.
desired,*^
must be
Our thought
lived,
for
manifested, ex-
The two conditions we ask, that we may teach you, are that you become willing and obedient. Your life shall help all you
meet, cannot fail to do so, because you cannot
1
Matt.
V. 8.
John xiii
17.
Matt
V. 48.
113
114
CHRIST IN YOU
This
is
in order to live,
and becomes
from
within.
may
manifest
Out
of darkness
light.
Out
of
weakness
strength.
There
is
vol-
at work.
not clog.
^
By
all
the wars
know that the Day of the Lord is at hand, your own Lord and Christ, the indwelling and potent
Christ of God.
of water
and of the
This I
may
explain
are in
to you later.
The
keys of the
Kingdom
your hands.
will
The
lifted
John
Ui. 5.
Matt
xxiv. 6.
Matt xvL
19.
"
''
115
attained the
ous hope, for they shall see the new dawn arising
when Christ who is our light kingdom cometh for ever and
shall reign.
ever.
His
SECOND LESSON
BOllN OF
THE VIRGIN
spirit
WE
the
first
goal.
This
knowledge
valuable to students at
You have
learned the
When
is
a travel-
ler is
sometimes
tremendous
rivers,
and
mountainous
to the pres-
heights.
The
up
of
and habit as
as
yourselves.
Some
and in
^
you are
seek-
ing farther on, and this means that you are called
Abraham was,
Am.^
alone
faith.
Only the
to help
One
of the obstacles
is
we want
2.
you to overcome
1
Phil.
iii.
14.
1.
Ex. iU.
Gen. xU.
4Bx.
110
iii.14.
117
we
the journey
age.
of the spirit.
To woman
came
is
this understanding,
and
new
Woman
phecy, and to
woman
made known. You have learned through previous lessons that there is perfect unity between God and
man.
This consciousness
is
Now, only by keeping this truth in mind can you comprehend our lesson. Even as God and man are one, so also there must of necessity be one only, and in
dawning over the whole
earth.
this
one
is
the
is
all,
channel.
God
ever self -creative, and the ultimate end of our race is unity.
life
All
life
of Jesus Christ in
He
came
two natures.
Mary
say
we would
Luke
i.
38.
118
CHRIST IN YOU
flesh
body of
separate worth.
separation,
Self.
it
is
The race
is
rising to a
and
wherein
is
har-
passing
away.
There
is
love-nature of God.
ture that
we
He
is
making
this is the
as He
will-
the beginning.
race
In every
Yes,
man.
is in
and we*^
His seed
shall be like
He was
creative.
first
all,
must
is
be
Birth
Gal.
a spiritual
Tim.
111.
16.
iv. 19.
John
ill. 2.
119
Jesus
of
mortal eye.
of Nazareth
The coming
of
and perfection of man by the Christ of God. Learn by this wondrous life the love of God and
the great unity.
I
^^
one.
When you
God
is
in separateness,
and know
you
it
like
a worn-out gar-
life,
Our next
sibilities."
lesson will be
"Mind, and
its pos-
Acts xiv.
17.
10
John
x. 30.
THIRD LESSON
MIND, AND ITS POSSIBILITIES
EVERY
power over
say,
condition of
own environment.
act,
^
Thus,
we
will
is
you become.
Man
I
his thoughts,
you
^
want mind
after
that
is
mind
heavy,
of
Why
art
thou so
O my
soul?
For
Who
God."
is
the health of
my
countenance
Him and my
in a condition of sickof
them Chris-
Prov. xxlii.
ii.
7.
Ps. xliii. 5.
2 Phil.
5.
120
MIND,
AND
121
There
no state of
and
ig-
off the
body prema-
and
norance
is
^
light is in
men
knowledge comes.
am
speaking
now
only to
You have no
^
right to al-
for
you
is
How to become
to the
mind
Let
of Christ
and dead
mind
of sense?
me
life spiritually,
if
death
your body of
failed seriously if
Now we come
4
5
to the beginnings.
die.
You thought
Cease your
122
thinking,
CHRIST IN YOU
and
let Christ think.
full,
am come
that
lifeJ
rich,
abundant
Wherever Jesus went, disease dissolved into nothingness; at His touch wholeness sprang up.
down when you have learned life's lessons, and when you are ready for the interior life. You will not escape the ills of the flesh even when you kill your presYour body should be
willingly laid
ent body,
if
you have
failed to obtain
your earth
j
its facul-
to acquire, to obey
no
which we set
We must enter
if
we would express
cannot acquire
flesh
only?
It is
more
conquer on the
plane of
back.
7
spirit, in fact,
you
will long to
come
;
j
is the
place to learn
Jolin X. 10.
Matt
iv. 23.
MIND,
therefore
AND
ITS POSSIBILITIES
love
123
we who
you come
to help
you at
are a
we
may not
be ignorantly hidden.
You
are
bom
to suffer
purpose.
There
is
and decay, but are here for a a reason for your place in and no one
that
else
life,
can do your
dif-
work.
ficult
your
environment
made
sense suggestion
dealt with, not
answer with
and
sweet reasonableness.
is
You
speak.
Many *
you
fail not.
God ^^
that work-
eth in
you
to
1.
wiU and
to do.
lo
Heb. xiL
2 Chron. xx.
17.
124
CHRIST IN YOU
hope to continue the teaching of the pos-
We
sibilities of
mind
''
in future lessons,
I
lesson will be
Personality."
am
even hourly, as you count time, follow the suggestions given, always remembering Christ in
all.
FOURTH LESSON
PEBSONALITY
so,
from
loss,
and
without
strife
or resistance.
will retain
it,
I can tell
you for
your personality
will need it
you need
I
and you
much
longer yet.
am
Your
loss is
always
You can
prayer,
and they help you; think often of them. Bless them and become conscious of unity, which
a blessed reality.
is
There
is
nothing untoward
Matt
V. 39.
126
126
yourselves,
CHRIST IN YOU
and they who love you would not have you with them until you have finished. In fact, you are near them now, but the veil or covering
is
This
is
a potent
force.
spirit ceases to
it
need
at will.
Paul,^
man
is ^
renewed
ex-
and defining
^
all
the highest
and
best.
and
clothed in
mortal eyes.
As your
Scriptures
life is
^
tell
continuity of
2
2 Cor.
xii. 2.
i?. 16.
John xx.
12. 10.
2Cor.
2Tlm. t
PERSONALITY
child life broken by the incident of birth.
127
life is liberated,
becoming
more
ness
intense.
Memory^
exists,
although
we
not
this
is
all
that
is
of use.
But
is
not the
Paul,
who had
tells
you
and the
man, as he was present in spirit with the Church of Corinth while his body was visible in another place.
Always bear
in
mind that
to us there is neither
Luke xvL
28.
1 Cor. v. 3.
128
I told
CHRIST IN YOU
you at the beginning that your Scripto
you in a
new
may
moving in
ence.
Now you
sesses the
body of
^
to manifest ;
and there
no reason why
it
This enemy
is
Garden
lower
in the
from God.
The
self
words
''
Hear,
"
^^
Israel, the
Lord thy
God
is
One Lord
it
One God. God requires perfection, therefore if we would rise to this consciousness we must begin with our lower self to bring it into obedience and subjection to the one
1 Cor.
m. ie
1 Oor. vL 19.
'
lo
Deut
vi. 4.
PERSONALITY
Ruler,
129
and as we do
is.
this
we
personality
We
all to
gain
all,
self,
we may become
37.
selfless
12
and
Mark
free.
xii. 30.
Mark xm.
FIFTH LESSON
THE TRUE SELF
**Let
Me"
HOW
is
often
we have
to
Spirit
is
being
become
We
life here,
highest good
When
wrong ideas about your individual responsibility. Each member is a complete worker. What you
see
is to
us shadowy,
are to
You
make
131
realities
This
is to
bring in the
the
new
earth.
Your
wherein dwelleth
righteous-
We are
succeed
if
working
you
all
and brotherhood.
with
us.
We
shall
will unite
is
Is it not
worth
while?
True unity
For
come
to
God who spake with the lips of Jesus; Christ of God who dwells within, the great
mankind from the bondage of sin, flesh, and the world of sense. For the Son of man must indeed be lifted up,^ and the false man of
liverer of
we
all
may
be
one
1
for
Christ is God.
1.
Kev. xxi.
John xU.
32.
12 Peter
Ui. 13.
132
CHRIST IN YOU
self
importance of denying
voice
and guidance
of Christ!
pain,
faith in God.
As you
rise,
Now
Take
shall
^
no * thought what ye
put on.
what ye
The
life is
than raiment.
It is true that
God
will supply
In
all
human language!
"^
" strong in
the Lord
and
Matt.
vi. 33.
Eph. vt
10.
133
may
John
xvii. 11.
SIXTH LESSON
THE TRUE SELFISHNESS
BE
I
God
know you are progressing because already you can command right thoughts and dismiss
inharmonious ones.
Results will
follow,
and
now you
It is not
ing for
when tempted to judge, with praythem, and as you evolve, your prayers
you are
Be
of good courage.
Man becomes
and out of
the
soil.
evil,
from
Every good
imitated in the
is
false
1
Pa. xxvU.
THE
TRtTE SELFISHNESS
This
is
135
called selfishness.
a divine
instinct,
it,
and
but learn
Man's
tion.
Even
in
spiritual
You
re-
This
is
The true
the great
law of giving
is
to benefit all,
good
to
and only
use
may
understand,
no
is
Do you desire
how
to obtain
health of body?
it,
You
to
Your
first
136
thought, I see,
self?
CHRIST IN YOU
is,
how can
I heal
it,
when
sick
my-
The
first
own
healing,
own
joy
True
This
is
getting
is
always hy way of
sacrifice.
it is
the key
to all
all
you nothing.
gift
un-
good
great Self,
house.
the
full of
hope and
If the unseen
become
visible at
2 Sam. xxiv.
24t,
137
get-
I tell
you that
this is
your real
ting,
The
Do
am
up the
Again
practice.
I ask that
SEVENTH LESSON
DWELL DEEP
YOU
for
are
spirit,
soul,
and
body.
The
upon
spirit,
by the
The body
is
the vehicle
manifestation.
Your
wholeness
depends
upon the one consciousness, and the active cooperation of soul and body. Knowing only God
brings into operation hidden laws, at present
unknown
to you.
You
live.
to
a divine purpose.
bilities,
The
ence to
and everything depends upon her obedithe Lord and Master, and to her transfer
More than
vi-
DWELL DEEP
brations, currents of blessing
all
189
healing,
and
and
ment.
Every spiritual
never
I tell
desire, expressed
through the
it is
Never mind
if
results.
ex-
When you
meditate or pray,
it is
the soul
and
See to
and
You.
Your
soul is
The
and
should
make
spirit.
perfect
so,
the
outer
body.
Wherever
place,
flesh
this is not
obedience to
you
does not
mean that
medium
140
CHRIST IN YOU
sleep.
Awake
*
!
When you
life.
Do
not repress
life,
There
is
of the flesh that can hinder the disciple at one with the will of God.
1
who
is
Eph,
V. 14.
EIGHTH LESSON
UNFOLDMENT FEOM WITHIN
THE
too,
it
that
may
express
God's meaning
The body,
it
exists
but
it is
takes
its
The
man, who
is
present period of
an innocent,
age; the one
happy
is
child
and
ence
1
suffering.
is
differ-
very great.
Til. 15,
experi-
Dan*
margin.
142
ence
is
CHRIST IN YOU
the most beneficial state for your present
healthy development.
soul.
Before
man awakes
has ruled.
centre, their
is
mind
of the brain
When
flooded
But the
This
man awakes
its
in a
own,
and a warfare
of your
it
is
life
at which
call
all
so fre-
new
king,
and
fail.
Have
faith: believe
stage,
you
God-Man.
You
fail
perhaps to be-
143
you
mind
rule you.
For
you cannot believe in what you see you are conscious that
all
things
anew.
This
false think-
As an
opposite joy
Kemedies
from
The inner
the one
man ^
first.
spirit,
reality.
Spirit rules.
strife.
obedience to
Lord.
Christ
is
Kise in
harmony
spirit,
soul,
and body
unis
You have
the sense
mind
2 Cor.
Iv. 16.
144
CHKIST IN YOU
JSow you are wholeThis
and
immortality to
light.
You
ment
The
You
warmed
work
to do in
your body
rise.
Prayer.
Its spiritual
meaning
glory.
8
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the Amen. Amen. Amen.
2 Tim.
1.
10.
NINTH LESSON
THE SOUL
on
I
is
know
that you
You
spirit
will live in it
you need.
see beauty, truth, or goodness,
Wherever you
it is
God
when dwelling on
that seems to the
much
real.
Music,
All genius
God
as clay in the hands of the potter.^ All states of existence, now, and in the future,
1 Jer.
xvUi.
6.
145
146
CHRIST IN YOU
life
and
its
expres-
It is not
power
to
Christ.
Your
^
Your environment is the outcome of your mind and thought. Heaven and hell are states of existence you make for yourYour fall away from truth self here and now.
to express
God.
is
Listen to your
Christ,
who
from destruc-
God speaks the word of power when "Let there be light,' and the light shineth from within.'^ The dividing of the*
He
says,
waters
the
is
the
separation
of
the
divine
and
John Luke
xiy. 9.
Iv.
la
Gen. Gen,
1.
I.
8. 6, 7.
* Pa. clil. 4.
THE SOUL
man.
first state
147
land (mind)
festation.
bring
soul
:
And God said, Let the earth (mind) forth, and God says within you, to your
My
thought.
Then you read God gave the two lights, the ' greater and the lesser. These symbolize the human and lights of the two understandings
divine.
fruitful
on the
fifth
day,
larger idea,
till
man
It is
You
yet.^^
Bead
Each
soul
makes
its
its
there is
Heaven by
T
own
created environment.
10
ii
By
1.
11. 16.
1. 1.
Gen. Gen.
1.
26.
2,
ii.
20.
148
CHRIST IN YOU
becomes greater.
In this sense you can
tell
you
We
can never
since the
first is
second
infinity.
I have given
subject, as it is
according to
With
thy getting,
get
life
^^
wisdom.
When
bly obedient.
be revealed.
all believers.
14
14 Jas. v. 7, 8.
Prov.
iv. 7.
PART
III
DIVINE HUMANITY
FIRST LESSON
I
IN
THBM
your understanding
WANT
to unfold to
God
transcendent.
of
life.
You
are
You
lives,
everything that
self
is.
You cannot
separate yourits
being.
You
bud and
You
The sense
of separateness is
false understanding,
of mind.
Is not this feeling of unity
more than a
rela-
tion to
God?
Is
it
breathing through
all
forms
all
Creation
How
Jolm xvU.
21.
151
152
"
CHEIST IN YOU
the Father?
''
Show us
"
^
He that hath
seen Me,
now our
privilege
" I
How
edge
are
we going
may be
You
most parts of the earth, you have your responsibility there, here,
and everywhere.
You
are not
parent
spirit,
but an
at-one-ment.
Knowing
is
is
The race
un-
yield to truth
and
I can-
the answer
sor-
and the
rows of
now.
life.
Surely
He
to
John
xlv. 9.
Joliu X. 30.
IN
THEM
153
looked upon
God
Do you
been
your
understanding?
upon some
I
am
human
race say,
as
we now say
I
together:
I in
Me.
am
Myself.
This understanding
put-
Him
to
where
He
Himself.
reveals to
man
and
disre-
you hold
^
Him
Hath He not
said
All that
yours, is mine?
He
18
John
xvi. 15
1 Cor.
iii.
21
Matt.
xxvm.
SECOND LESSON
"thou
in
MB"
and
KEEP you
all
in
mind
will be led
life is
back to
it
and
find that
your
the
to
God-Man Christ is all in all. This truth has be made one with the outermost limits of creby drawing from
its
There
is
a condition of consciousness in
lives.
everything that
thing about
itself,
and unfoldment,
its
own
The whole
of
God
you
is in
Try
its
to banish the
it
thought
Your
first
life
was
seecl
movement.
Your highest
154
is
love.
The
"
THOU
IN
ME
''
155
thought
life
is
moves, quick-
and brings forth seed (thought). This is true of all creation. Your first movement was
ens,
This
is
whole of creation
truths of
life
manifest to the
seer.
The
do not
are.
is,
However low
spiritual evoits
that
lution a soul
is, it
can be perfect of
sin, sickness,
kind,
and should be
This
is
free
from
and death.
We would
Why
Whoever
is ^
for
no
evil,
has
life.
He
Heaven
1
The Fall
xxxiii. 15,
156
is
CHEIST IN YOU
It is
a false under-
standing.
Why have we
ing that
God cannot
it.
The
real
you has
all
never tolerated
ness really;
There
it is
time
it
around you
and because of
ing
off
and
its livingness
the
shadow
of ignorance
a condition of
that sin and ig-
growth and
know
norance are less than the morning mists now being dispelled by the inner sun, the
love-life.
fire of
the
in the shadow,
all is
That
how
you.
it is lifting
We
see its
we rejoice with
life
You
light.
and
and
for ever.
f'
THOU
we
IN
ME
''
157
way
of
Nothing
is
impossible to
him that
believeth.
THIRD LESSON
"seek and ye shall
find'^
THE
standing.
question
may
be asked
in
Why
are so
many
this
people
still
knowledge?
We
and are willing to be and do what we can. It is good for you to give your heart to the understanding of wisdom.
Knowledge
is
not underGod-like.
Do
ing
difficulties
and
hin^
you
free.
Many
perature.
fluences.
1
of
you seem to be
in
bondage to the
subject to
many
I
in-
and
would
John
viii.
''
159
could
How
what
thought
chill,
it
necessary to
avoid
if I
and
Ah
being
this stage,
beyond
life,
is
As you awake in the morning you look outside and see cold; now you both see and feel cold. You must see before you feel a truth or a falsehood
;
this is
a law.
We
You
and
you
will feel
Your
its
reward.
Bead this truth into every detail of the day, and live in the assurance that God cannot fail. See reality, God, behind every shadow. As you go into the outer, cast out fear. Be not anxious, and the very elements will be at one with you.
This
2
is
Your whole
Jolm
160
CHRIST IN YOU
is
within yourself.
The
day
is at
earth, will be a
pressed yourself in
God-Man
tion
;
is
but
all
must
co-operate,
flee
away,
no* more.
your work
Your
is
but
for eternity.
Do
Be
but
of
good courage.
is
God
in
it.
The
and
first
you
will be
home and
at rest in
stance.
Do you
you
will
a
will
open out
XXXV.
10.
treasure.^
6
At
present your
Isa.
Deut
xxviii. 12.
Rev.
vii. 16.
''
''
161
being with
if
its
the true
Live simply.
things of today.
for the
their dead.
Follow Me.
6
am
FOURTH LESSON
"the knowledge
of god shall
THE
Lift
is
at hand, is here.
The signs are in earth and sky. up your heads. The King of ^ glory has
glory.
in.
come
This
is
new
birth.
What
does
it
mean
for you?
The conscious-
ness of Christ
is
dawning
under His
feet.
God
tells
this
that they
may
most.
Christ.
work, but
self.
1 Ps.
The
xxiv.
real
is great.
We
see
Ps. xviii. 9.
162
"
''
163
liv-
ing waters.
understanding.
in the midst.
Man
is divine,
and God
is
ever
Your true consciousness is the knowledge that One and One only fills all * space. When you silently think of this you will know that in this
understanding, in this continual realization, true
freedom
lies.
You
you
to this; nay,
self
by
You
is
As you write these words we are near you, and many would like to come back and tell you the glorious news, to open your eyes that you may
see in very truth
" There am
8
I in the midst.''
all,
within, but
xviii. 20.
now we
Hos.
Matt,
164
CHRIST IN YOU
upon seemingly separate
see the
per-
sonalities
and
still
One
only.
To
recog-
Lord in
all is to lift
just
what
are.
Help souls
your
foes.
one of
In one
way
down your
self
spirits.
Get
and
for others.
There
absolutely nothing
is
to fear.
Lord supreme.
Remind
ture.
and
what
law in action.
no
longer,"^
but
God omnipotent
reigneth.
See
fox,
spoiling
the vine.
and gastric
juices.
words
so that
we may
Fear
e
not.
iv.
There
18.
John
ii.
Song
ii.
15.
QaL
20.
Isa. xly.
"
165
Once
and
Now
this
must
positively be
In
fact, the
universe
Your
own
Face
of the I will
Am
Only thus
Try from
I
this
moment
to
and cast
Here
is
Lord.
You can
fill
love thoughts, so
making a
for the
to
fear.
growth of good.
You
are in
Cleanse
^^
From
and
Be
whole
perfect. Be positive; know that you must make your circumstances, and not wait for events and then act. You are blind and miserable till
your inner
^^
the understand-
awake
13.
Eph.
18
Job xxxli. 8
166 out of
^^
CHEIST IN YOU
sleep."
nothing outside
Confidence and
God.
trust are
12
Rom.
xiii. 11.
xxx.
15.
FIFTH LESSON
THE WILL OF GOD
WHAT
meaning,
if
a long time
it
takes us to under-
You
"I have
made up my mind."
for in that
very process you begin to bring into manifestation the desire of the mind.
see a
"I
wrong condition
in
my
my
circumstances ;
I will
my make up my
set in
mentality,
mind, this
You mentally
will.
motion the
to ac-
and unseen,
complish your
You
lightly
see, it is
would be
aroused to true spiritual consciousness, the consciousness of the divine humanity, the I
Am.
How
God be
167
expressed except
through
168
CHRIST IN YOU
exist in Himself?
There-
know
God
is
operative in
yourself.
Then how
sire
is it
we
will
and
de-
do not come to
deep
you may
in
ask.
Because
down
all
is
your
desires,
an undercurrent,
Have
felt
from the
self of
you that
is
making your
life.
God, which
your own
will.
This
is
the voice
Do
not sin
On
the plane
XXX. 21.
169
you
It
drink.
So
delicate
and so
Let
you must be
^ it.
if
move the
self.
veil
God
lives in you,
He
your
John
life.
iv. 34.
Ps. xxv. 9.
SIXTH LESSON
WORKEES TOGETHER WITH GOD
nr
if
HEBE
really is
law of
and deaf
to a great extent.
At a
later period of
is to possess.
Thus,
we w ish
we
we
Thought
is so potent, so
may not
see
it,
you can-
result.
Be very
careful that
spiritual plane.
The phe-
nomena
to us.
of time
They
will be discarded as
you dwell in
What
divides us
now
in,
Every
but
171
and
You partake
breath of God.
of the inflow
This
is
am
We
Your
Noon and
known
to
you as
weakness.
I see
God,
is to
banish the
Bands
men and
172
CHRIST IN YOU
to free
women
tories,
prisons,
and similar
places.
Their
in-
much more
we come
those
who have
to teach.
We
we
We
hope to be of
caused by
By
this
escape discipline,
we do not mean that you but how can you begin to learn
if
God
He
God
self
bless
alive unto
Him-
and dead to
Amen.
SEVENTH LESSON
THE CREATIVE BNERGY
is
and
of
al-
am
ways
is
been.
The process
always
There
ous present.
silent energy
and sound
I desire
when
life
is
of lack.
am
and
around me lacks
With the
desire I will,
will,
which
is
my
I
forces.
There
am
surrounded by a
174
CHEIST IN YOU
I love, I will!
The
arc,
be-
by pink.
I
am
answered in myself.
am
both positive
and negative, male and female; and out of this consciousness, beauty of form and shade seem
born ; yet as
I
write this I
I
know
bring
that
it
i)erf ection
into evidence
by
my
will
and
desire.
and millions
of shades
seem
from three
red, blue,
and yellow.
blend,
of
sound and
form.
The
col-
As you
see, this is
extremely
difficult
am
in a
175
bom
There
of
is
mony
many
is softlife.
The teacher
for long,
speaks.
this
One
single drop of
blade of grass.
dew contains what you have The Creator is in truly, the whole of God is in the By this know that space is a
in the universal soul
Everything
is
the Christ
The one
Self is cre-
In heaven there
in marriage.
of Christ.
This
EIGHTH LESSON
GOD THE ONLY LIFE
WANT
to tell
you how
real,
how
true
it is,
I
is
perience of
my
own.
and there
tinual revelation.
I
my
entrance into
I
speak of one
my
life
more abundant?
things,
I
and
was
have
to
continually
It
" Yield
my
yourselves
to
unto
God.''
discover that
my
ment; in
once.
1
For
Rom.
vi. 13.
17^
177
all is still-
am
instantly in a grove
I think
and
music
and
at
am
satisfied
the
music gently
that awaits us
when we
are in God.
I desire
to help,
;
and
I
am
sent to people
of helping
who
are climbing
to their own.
them
my
Be ye holy
good
is
(healthy), for
am
God.
no secret
initiation,
no mystery in God.
a beautiful sense
You
the kingdom.
that there
revealed.
is
You
Even
knowledge that
my
I
God
Lev. xix.
2.
Mark
x. 15.
178
CHEIST IN YOU
all else, until I realized
above
me and
said, "
for
Your prayer
shall
^
heard."
At
the
familiar words
"
Ye
all
on
my
Then began
a cleansing
God.
From
heart.
I
within
there
arose
stream, that
made me aware
of its workings in
my
My
limitations
must
go.
I,
who
thought
possessed
relatives,
friends,
home,
must learn that God must enlarge my heart with greater loves, more friendships.
There are no limitations where God
claiming
of
personalities.
bitter,
is,
no
God
is
all.
The
waters were
great gain.
Your
and
Ah,
B
it is true,
it will
Jer. xxix.
la
179
my own was
as nothing,
was The
^'
Thou
know
thyself
by
this test
ing? "
With great
I think there
of quiet.
my
understanding
the rest
I sup-
and comfort
of a great strength,
and yet
is
that I seemed
God
knowing
but
take
nothing
but
yet
to
God
wanting
that
to
it
nothing
good;
and
aeons
this
aware
would
Soon
me
in
understand,
heavenly consciousness.
I
saw our
earth,
of
in
this
to live in
shadow, in pain.
must
tell
The
voice of the
180
CHRIST IN YOU
"
"^
am
me
there is none
else.''
"
I answered.
am
with-
cannot think
me
less
than vapour.
God
in
all,
Even your very stones and rocks are interpenetrated by the God-life. " Awake, thou that
sleepest, arise
"
^^
Christ
is
the
Oh
God!
love.
false,
shadowy consciousness
consciousness
of
and
mount
into
the
He maketh my ^ feet like hinds' feet." I know that in me the Christ has ascended to His
" Truly
In
me
three.
xlv. 18.
Hab. UL
19.
John
viU. 12.
181
f rieuds,
and dear
ever they
of losing,
is
God's God's
thought
thought.
is
You
You
that you
where you
This
is
Love never
true
faileth.
Begin now.
the
way
to bring in light
and
love,
conquering
newness
^^
of
life.
I will
come again.
It will be
that Christ
You must let self utterly melt away may come to His own.
n Rom.
vi. 4.
in order
10 1 Cor. xiii. 8.
NINTH LESSON
HE GAVE HIMSELF
AS
viewed,
many
One
is
It is safer
and grander
it is
Have you
not sometimes
ness of joy?
true joy
I tell
you
it is
impossible to
know
have
is
the
it is
heights of joy
until you
of pain.
^
This
It is
evil.
True joy
should
may
enter
in.
"
As
I
sorrowful, yet
iii,
always rejoicing."
3
Mai.
2.
2 isa. ix. 2, 3,
2 Cor.
vl. 10.
182
HE GAVE HIMSELF
Now
I
188
Divine
humanity
can
attain
the
way
of the
This
is
the
way
of sacrifice.
Do
not too
When man
thought of himself as a
God
for the
dead
He
selves.
But now
*
Man
is
arising;
the
new wine
is
Bebe-
and burning up
The Son
of
God
is
His approach.
much more
we
*
you
to
Matt
ix. 17.
184
live
CHRIST IN YOU
and express the highest within you, knowing that Christ will perfect that which concerneth
Christ's,
and Christ
is God's.
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