I CAME

PART ONE OF A TRILOGY

By Walter C. Lanyon

The message in this book is lovingly dedicated to Grace W. and her daughter Grace W.

My son, some kings are commonplace, and not all laborers are worthy of their hire.

But this I say to you; that if you are in league with gods to learn life and to live it, neither king nor commoner can prevent you, though they try their utmost.

You shall find help unexpectedly from strangers who, it may be, know not why.

Tsiang Samdup

CONTENTS

THE MASK OF PERSONALITY

BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY  

BREAKING PATTERNS

FIRST PERSON, PRESENT TENSE

FATE ----DESTINY

WIST YE NOT

NO THOUGHT

NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

WHY DO YOU SAY POSSIBLY?

SOUL AND LIVING SOUL

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE IN GOD

NO MAN HATH REVEALED THIS UNTO THEE

ASSUMPTION

THEN ABRAHAM LAUGHED

IT IS DONE

THE WAY OF THE LORD

TODAY

THOU ART NOT FAR

KARMIC LAW

MEDITATIONS

    ENOUGH AND TO SPARE

   THEIR GARMETNS WAXED NOT OLD

   BEHOLD

   CREATED

   INSTANT PROTECTION

   TO THE POOR

   BLESSED ARE THE MEEK

   SHEDDING OF THE BLOOD

   IN THE BEGINNING

   THE HOUR OF SILENCE

THE MASK OF PERSONALITY

Chapter One

      IN ANCIENT TIMES when the Greek Nobleman wished to enact a role upon the stage he donned a plaster mask, representing either tragedy or comedy, thus saving himself the trouble and displeasure of distorting his features, and instantly conveying to his audience the character he represented. If he wore a tragic mask, he passed through the play on that note and was recognized as a tragedian, etc. Yet all the while he might be smiling behind the mask.

      When you left the Garden of Eden, you took on a mask or persona (from which comes our word per­sonality), and since that time, you have changed from one mask to another throughout the ages. You chose the particular mask or character that you are now playing, because you saw in it a possibility of accomplishing that which your soul desired to express, irrespective of what that mask contained within itself. A thousand actresses have played Lady Macbeth, but each has brought out a different character. The Immortal You, or Permanent Identity, took' on mortality in order to bring to the surface a clear manifestation of soul. But so often, in entering into the character of the mask, the You is hypnotized by the appearances of that character to such an extent that it finally is ruled by the mask; thus we see it very much in the same light, as if the Greek Noble­man who was actually free from most cares of life, suddenly took on the tragic aspect of the mask he wore, thereby putting himself through all sorts of evil situations; or if he wore the comic mask, be­coming the fool or "nit-wit" represented by that mask. Jesus, the Carpenter, discovered the limita­tions and inability to cope with life or personality (in His case called Jesus) "I can of Myself do noth­ing."

      Discovering His true identity, He appropriated His heritage (made in the image and likeness of God), thereby freeing Himself from the limitations of (the Mask) Jesus. He became so conscious of His Permanent Identity, with its fourth-dimensional power-God-that He was willing to go through all problems and beliefs of the "Mask" of Jesus before He finally stepped it up to the place of Oneness---the "Touch me not" place above all human law or contact. By this recognition He was able to cause the Mask (Jesus) to do things that it could not pos­sibly do. His field of expression and activity was al­ways in the direction of the impossible.

      So conscious of this "Mind which was also in Christ Jesus" was He, that He even allowed the "Mask" to be crushed, broken, crucified and put to death, in order that I He might prove the power which lay within the Permanent Identify, and which is indigenous to every man, when he is able to recognize it. As soon as you discover this, you will understand the power to "pick it up or lay it down." Only by discovering or recognizing the Permanent Identity of you, the changeless creation of God, will you be able to assume command over the personality-mask.

      Once you grasp this fundamental truth you will really go within and shut the door-ceasing to judge further from appearances, because you will have recognized the truth regarding them, as revealed by Jesus Christ "Judge not from appearances."

      Anything you then discover in your Permanent Identity becomes a reality in the relative world. In other words, whatever you discover as being true in this God Consciousness makes itself manifest in and through you. Jesus became conscious of substance­ unlimited, and was able to bring through the increase of bread and fish, after having clearly stated "I (Jesus) can of Mine own self do nothing." The Mask, Personality, "John Smith," can do nothing outside its own limitations. It has a very limited destiny and must and will follow it through. There is no escape unless the recognition of the Permanent Identity, the Christ within, or the rather Conscious­ness, is made. At no time can the Jesus-mask cause the rather to do His bidding, or to work "wonders" for the gratification of human curiosity. In every instance, He must "go unto the Father"-ascend to His God Consciousness or Permanent Identity.

      The "Mask" or personality has already done every­thing it could to make it a success. Only after the recognition of the Permanent Identity (you), are you able to cause so-called miracles or the impossible to take place.

      All this is above the reasoning or thought-taking process of the personality. "The wisdom of man is foolishness," etc. The Mask of tragedy can play only tragedy. The Mask of sickness can produce only sickness, so with poverty, maladjustments, etc., there is very little that can actually be done about it. You may in some manner change the outside appearance a little, but if you wear the tragic Mask, tragedy will mark the entire expression of your personality. This "thinking" or rather mis-thinking mind, is designated as "a liar and the father of it"-its intelligence is exactly the same grade as that of a person who would consider any character or situation on the stage as real and unchangeable. The moment the play is over the whole picture breaks up, the actors throw off their Masks and become themselves. The moment you understand the law of Jesus Christ, you discover the same ability within yourself, and begin to throw off the Mask of personality, and you are not so easily taken in, as it were, by what the character in the play is apparently doing. You begin to see---even if vaguely-that you have power "to pick 'it up or lay it down" by reason of the Permanent Identity which changes not, and which is "a temple not made with hands eternal in the heavens."

      There is nothing very strange about this-the fact of the matter is, it is so simple it is "given unto the child" and withheld from the adult (adulterous man), who is hypnotized to the extent that he builds everything on what the tragic Mask represents, hence his sin, sickness and death.-'It is glorious and wonder­ful when you first glimpse this revelation, for sud­denly you feel a real awakening, a real movement towards your Permanent Identity. In this conscious­ness you discover, or rediscover that which was al­ways yours.

      This discovery brings forth many things you have forgotten which were "shown to you on the Mount," and' will change manifestations with lightning rapid­ity and ease-"in the twinkling of an eye all shall be changed," 'the moment you see it in this Permanent Identity, it becomes visible in the manifest world.

      Literally then comes the revelation "Whatsoever you tell the Father in Secret shall be called from the housetops." 'Whatsoever you can accept in the Per­manent Identity as real and true will be made visible in the manifest world. The Greek Nobleman knows the difference between himself and the Mask and is free-so with you. You are beginning to see the dif­ference between your personality and your individu­ality. You are "being born again." It is wonderful!

      Who are you then---answer me? Are you tragedy, are you comedy, are you sickness, poverty, ingratitude, or are you the "Christ of God"?

      "Who do you say that I AM?" Answer me. Judg­ing by the Mask, some say you are John Smith or Mable Jones, that you are a thief, a liar, a crook, a holier-than-thou, etc.---but "WHO DO YOU say that I AM?" Do you begin to see why it is necessary actually to go within and shut your door?

      This time you are returning or entering into the Father Consciousness, and you need not be surprised at the many wonderful things taking place. Things will now happen with ease and dispatch, and you will find yourself moving in new levels of manifestation.

      Small wonder then-"Judge not from appearances but judge righteous judgment." Judging from ap­pearances leads only to a conclusion of evil, for the Mask is tragic, the role is cast and nothing can be done about it. The sooner you realize this, the quicker you will stop trying to do anything with the Mask outside, and will enter into the Courts of the Lord, and be your Permanent self; and from that point on you will sec the useless and inane measure­ment of things by human thought. Human thought is a capacity of the personality or Mask, and is con­cerned almost wholly with evil; filled with anxiety and fear, which are without power to stop evil.

      "When I would do good, I do evil." This is a sample of human thought-taking. No matter what be the power behind the Mask, so long as you are hypnotized by it, you cannot manifest anything but the limitations of that Mask. A lion has been raised to be afraid of a poodle dog. Maybe you are afraid of something equally simple.

      Ceasing to judge from appearances then, is not merely hiding from your eyes so-called pictures of evil, as if the so-called lion were to hide from the picture of the poodle;' but it is a sudden ability to "Judge righteous judgment"--that is to see the pic­tures of sin, disease, etc., for what they are instead of what they appear to be-to look through the Mask of personality, and discover what is within. The Nobleman may be smiling radiantly behind this Mask. Your Permanent Identity may be doing the same thing. So "Look again" and see through the Mask and enter into your true fulfillment. It is the recognition of this that saves you from the sudden thrusts of other personalities or Masks in the Play of Life, and protects you from the ugly and apparently inevitably disastrous results of human destiny.

      So hypnotized have you been by this Mask-Personality which you are wearing, that you even consult it regarding all the issues of life, and this Mask then assumes such complete authority that it holds you against all desire and better judgment into a place of evil. No wonder Jesus said, "Awake thou that sleepest, and Christ (Permanent Identity) shall give thee light." "Awake and arise from the dead!" (Mask of Personality-John Smith) and go into the New Da_y with confidence! You will understand how it is that the "King can play the beggar, but the beggar cannot play the King." The beggar may take on a veneer of spirituality or Kingliness---show a few tricks of this pseudo-power, but his terrific handicaps are seen and discovered, and he is cast out as false. The Mask or Personality can never become the Nobleman-he may take on a certain semblance of power and authority, but it is only an appearance which he cannot long sustain.

      You cannot change the Mask from without, you cannot heal it. Its innate capacities will stay with it so long as it must depict a role separate from the Noble­man's Identity. Every time the Nobleman puts it on, he is temporarily, at least to the world of appearances, that thing. Every time Jesus allowed Himself to operate under the Jesus-Mask He was a carpenter. The moment He made His assumption, He became Jesus Christ, and did what the world called miracles, or things He could not otherwise have done.

      Unlike the Mask, the Personality is in its essential nature plastic and fluidic, and that is the reason why Jesus in entering into His Permanent Identity could change the Mask and cause it to sidestep its own des­tiny or limitations. So the hard, set Mask of you which appears- so destined to perform evil, can be changed and its hateful destiny obliterated. To the human thought this is impossible, and it cannot be done by thought. "Take no thought."

      Do you begin to see why Mary "Magnified the Lord within her," instead of trying to change any­thing about the Mary-Mask? Do you begin to see why you will suddenly stop trying to change things on the outside? Then you will find the real place of revelation and thereby control the situation, causing the Mask to change its appearance likewise. All this is filled with Light.

      I am writing to you at dawn, and at this very moment a terrific noise assaults my cars. Looking out, I perceive that the great walls of the old Hippodrome Theatre, a former landmark of New York City, have crashed to the ground. Workmen are razing the building that seemed so massive and enduring. Now even as I watch, it is no more. Five minutes ago, it was there. Now, as I return to my writing it is done away with-gone forever. So, one day will the walls of your personality, in their hard-set form, give way to the Christ Consciousness so completely that the belief in sickness, age, poverty and hurt shall be wiped out forever.

      "You shall run and not be weary---" Why? How? Do you know any athlete who can do it? Just what is it we are talking about anyway? Was Jesus a sooth­sayer or a liar? You answer it. When you discover your Permanent Identity, if it be necessary, you shall run and not be weary, for you will know that the Mask-Personality has no longer intelligence or power of its own, no capacity to become tired, worn-out, sick, poor, unhappy, aged, or any of the so---called evil. None of this can be proven for the idle curiosity of disbelievers, or people who want a sign---it is not for this purpose---it is a natural law, which functions along natural lines when it becomes natural to you, and ceases to be some fantastic, intangible, invisible power. The use of the Mask by the Nobleman does not diffuse the Mask in any way and so you begin to sense-feel your fatigueless body. It cannot be over­worked, for this newly recognized power can work faster through it than the body can possibly work by itself with its muscular and mental limitations. The Power can speed up the use of muscles and nerves to such a capacity as is entirely impossible humanly. We are moving to the realm of the capital wisdom of God, which is our heritage---otherwise the teachings of Jesus are vain. Are you beginning to appropriate this power, and experience the direct and instant ac­tion of it? "Be still and know that I am God." You can know this only in the place of your Permanent Identity, hence if "I am to speak" the Jesus Mask is used to see through, and actually his mouth becomes the mouth of God for the moment. If you can once see this, you will never again begin any task or work without a moment's pause for the recognition that it is "already done." With this recognition a super­-capacity comes to you which makes it possible to accomplish the hitherto impossible.

BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY

Chapter Two

"BEHOLD, I come quickly and My reward is with Me." The reward, like the answer to prayer, is "Be­fore you ask." This is so entirely beyond the ken of humanity that nothing but confusion results from an attempt to think it out. There is nothing in all your human thinking or intellect that can conceive of an answer before the request or question is asked, and so, when the confusion has subsided, the whole thing is charged off to illusion, or, if some mani­festation has taken place, to "supernatural." Super­natural is exactly what it is---it is not only above the human man, but above his ability to understand. He cannot stand to have the very foundations of his human kingdom, governed under his so-called laws, rocked to the very foundation by the "coming quickly" into manifestation of this new dimension of power. Even to hear of it incites his anger---hence the crucifixion.

Think of it ---a child can do it, and you cannot. Maddening, isn't it? It throws you into a fury of helpless anger---you want to fight or destroy such a person and his works. "Let us crucify him!" Yes, crucify the ones saying "there is abundance in our apparent poverty, there is health in our sickness, there is happiness in our inharmony." Get rid of such a doctrine! "Why have you come here to disturb us?"

"I bring not peace but a sword," and this sword is sharply felt when human thinking with its vicious circle of ideas comes into contact with it. It pierces the very heart of every cherished belief. Man has striven for years to establish his idea of heaven on earth, and he sees the order of his life crumbling.

Because you and ten thousand like you, and also ten thousand great leaders and teachers and wise-­heads have found sickness, sin and death to be true this does not change the fact that One with God is a majority. "Ten thousand may fall at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee, because . . ." Be­cause what? Because you have entered into your Oneness with God. Trying to demonstrate over the appearance of ten thousand beliefs in evil is a hope­less job---trying to do anything spiritual is hopeless. You cannot control or use the God-power as you would a fire hose on a burning building. THE SOONER YOU FIND OUT THAT YOU CAN­NOT CONTROL GOD by your thinking, by your affirmation, by your courses of lessons, the sooner you will begin to "Let." This letting is not a supine waiting for something to happen----it is a conscious merging with your Permanent Identity---"I and my Father are One."

Either the wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God, or else it is wisdom. If you find it to be wisdom, then you must place your entire faith in it. If it is true, there is no reason to change it--- hence, to try to get rid of evil, which is a part of the human thinking, is foolishness. If evil were a part of God and He destroyed it, He would be literally destroying Himself.

You see that we have come to a place beyond all metaphysical theories, past all new thought systems and into pure Consciousness, past all the ancient wis­dom of the old worlds and their myriad ways of get­ting into heaven. Through the revelation of Jesus Christ, we enter into a permanent state of things, the "Before Adam was, I am"---right back to "In the beginning of you." Not nearly so difficult as it ap­pears. All these thousands of years are but a day in the mind of God, so you have been in this ugly miasma of evil only a few days---though a single day of one of these many centuries may seem as a thou­sand years to you. All the illusions which so long have bound you will melt into oblivion at His com­ing, for "The former things have passed away---behold, all things are made new." The former things shall not be remembered nor come into mind any more. It is marvelous---this awakening to the new order that now is establishing itself in you.

It is direct action because it is operating from the ceaseless fount of power. "You speak not of your­self" but directly from Him who sent you into ex­pression. So your voice becomes the God voice, and you speak the unique Word that will bring release to the captive. You can never think what this word should be---that is entirely in the hands of your Permanent Identity. "Open your mouth and I will supply the word." You are emerging gently or sud­denly (depending on the degree of your appropriation of the Father-Consciousness) into the very Presence, to such a degree that you take the literal word Jesus Christ, as your WORD.

If you do not talk of and about the truth you will have no challengers asking you to change stones into bread or some other ridiculous thing. There is a great difference in talking of and about the Truth, and speaking the truth. When you talk of and about the truth, you are always speaking in the past or future tense---when you Speak the Truth, you are in the present tense. In other words, you are speaking the Word. If you persist in talking of and about the Truth, even when called upon to make the most trifling "demonstration" you will not be able to do so. Remember, the power is not "proven" to satisfy the curiosity of unbelievers. It is made manifest auto­matically whenever you "touch" Me, "to make your joy full." The power is exact and as natural in its functions as mathematics. The law of mathematics is not affected by climate, nationality, beliefs, opinions, wars or rumors of wars, complete chaos, or ten mil­lion other beliefs of man. Neither is the law of God affected, and when understood, is found to be as intact, and as operative as mathematics. There is nothing emotional, sentimental or in any way biasing in this law of God, which Jesus so perfectly explained as the Law of Life. This wonderful law may run through and touch at points many orthodox religious beliefs, but it has nothing to do with them. They have to do with it---God is non-sectarian, impersonal, not depending in any way on any organization. All organizations are merely shadows of the personalities which originated them.

It took an earthquake to get Peter out of prison. Perhaps it may take this for you, but at no time does it make any difference how mortal man, mortal thinking, mortal belief, are upset---if you stand in your new consciousness, the "Jailers" must run for their lives; but afterwards they must come and liter­ally invite you to come out of the prison of human belief into which they have cast you. It is amazing how they must "eat their own words"---so is it with every hellish and fiendish device or person that is fashioned against you. It is wonderful! Stand fast and sec the Salvation of the Lord. Nothing is difficult to this Power.

"The word of God is quick and sharper than a two-edged sword turning in all directions." Do you hear? The Word of God, not the words of man, which are ten thousand affirmations and beliefs, but the Word of God---is quick and powerful and sharper ---sharper---than a two-edged sword turning in all directions. Ponder this---a two-edged sword swirling about you in all directions. And so---You are the word of God made manifest, and the consciousness of this will decapitate any human thought formation. Nothing can stand in the way of this WORD----sword. For these things are true.

And yet if you are thinking to fight evil, sickness, lack with your sword, you are thwarted, you are told "You do not need to fight"---"Put up your sword"----"He that takes the sword shall perish by the sword." All of this seems paradoxical, but there is not a con­tradiction in the whole statement. There is no war in God---War is in the mind of man---the coming of God into manifestation displaces the evil appearances of man-thinking, hence, "I bring not peace but a sword," and at the same time "I come not to destroy, but to fulfill." These statements are one and the same thing. Nothing is destroyed but the congested think­ing of the human mind. The wicked human thought has congealed into icebergs of sickness, sin, poverty, inharmony, which are melted out of existence and which are literally destroyed by the presence or rec­ognition of this God-Power.

One thing is sure---the moment you step up, you are this Presence---evil must either disintegrate or dis­appear from your present life, whether it (the evil) represents person, place or thing---nothing shall stand in the way of this on-coming through you. It (the evil) can then no longer live in your world.

Throwing out ballast causes a balloon to enter a new level of atmosphere. As the balloon ascends, outlines of people and places seem less important and less distinct, and finally only geometric patterns re­main. So with you---as you ascend (which is not a physical upward movement but, a blending or liaison with the Presence)---the forms and outlines of evil fade out of existence, and eventually lose all their force or power as such.

The moment you, in your new, God-given Iden­tity, come into the presence of sin, sickness or death---it must and will disappear from your present Life. It may no longer live in your world. Anything that touches you will cause the "Virtue" to come out of you, and bring the unmanifest into being. This is automatic. You are actually beginning to appropriate that which belongs to you. As formerly you desired to heal, now you cannot refrain healing anything that touches you.

What you have in your consciousness, you have in your manifest world, and only that. You cannot possibly get rid of a thing, person, place or condi­tion in your manifest world, if it is not first released in your consciousness. "When you loose a thing in heaven" (consciousness)---it is bound to manifest itself on the earth. You have freed it into expression---this God-Power---and it is, so to speak, bound into manifestation. As you free or move freely in the substance of God, it is bound or shaped into the form of supply needed in your everyday life, whatever that may be---money, clothes, food, friends, etc. To the human mind this may seem difficult, for there are many things in your manifest world of which you say you have never even thought.

If you had not recognized them in your conscious­ness, there could be no possible way for them to exist in manifestation. Whether we like this or not, it is so. "All that the rather (your consciousness of God in yourself) has is mine." Every manifestation in your world, good, bad, or indifferent, is held in place by your consciousness of it. Destroying manifestation does not destroy the idea---as long as it remains in consciousness, it will find an embodiment. A man who commits murder, finds he is not rid of his victim ---but lives with him as never before. Awake---arise---go within and ponder these things. Hiding or shutting a thing away does not get rid of it---you must strip it of its supposed power, by taking away its only substance (your belief in it). The moment you cut off your thinking from an evil situation it will disintegrate and disappear, so we do not handle dis­ease or financial loss or lack or woes as we were formerly taught to do. We are awakening to the consciousness of the Presence, through the revelation of Jesus Christ, and this awakening brings us out of much mental hypnotism. The time was, when we believed that to mention a disease by its Adam name, was to give it power. We called it a "belief" or a "claim" and imagined that by not calling it a name we made it less real. "Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light."

There is a wonderful spiritual exaltation which will come to you when you know you have instant contact with the Father within. You can call upon Him now, no matter what your former idea was re­garding systems of getting in touch with Him.

NOW!!!-You are instantly in touch with Him and are experiencing the whole glorious flow of the Presence passing through your temple-body into expression. No matter what is confronting you, you can get your immediate answer and instant assurance of "Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with Me," and in a moment experience relief from what­ ever may be the human thought difficulty.    

You are beginning to behold the glorious power that is yours through the recognition of Jesus Christ. No matter where this finds you, or what the condi­tion, you now can, and will "Speak the word." You can and will "Smite the rock." You can and you will “Smite the rock.” You can and you will "Cause the desert to blossom as a rose,” and you can and you will now do all the other wonderful things of which Jesus spoke. It is good for you to remember that one man did it all, proved it all for you. "Let that mind be in you which was also so in Christ Jesus.” It seems too good to be true, and that is why it is true. True to you, if you can take it, true, if you can accept it and turn, once and for all, from the human belief of good and evil. "Behold, I come quickly"­--- so much more quickly than any human action, even more quickly than human thought. The speed of human thought is as slow as a paralyzed man, compared with this quickness with which “I” come dissolve the pictures of evil about you.

BREAKING PATTERNS

Chapter Three

"FORMER THINGS have passed away---behold, all things are become new."

      Former ideas about truth are yielding to the new order, the new day. Old patterns are recognized as false, and are crumbling away, disintegrating before the Presence---the Life---the new Revelation. It is wonderful! The moment you "See" with the spiritual eye, you will perceive there is no more healing to take place---only revelation. In the new state of awareness, every time you recognize your Father Consciousness, you change the pattern of the Son. In other words, when you perceive the Permanent Con­sciousness of the changeless Father, then, the chang­ing, shifting nature of John Smith breaks the old pattern, and shows forth a new design.

      This merging with the Father caused the patterns of limitation about Jesus to disintegrate---to fall apart, as it were. When the new vision or idea or pattern was established, then the atoms or elements integrated again as though they were particles of steel drawn into place by a magnet. The moment you see what takes place in this new consciousness, at that moment, you will stop trying to heal the body, or to change the expression of it. Transfiguration does not deal with cured, helped or healed bodies---it is a com­pletely new pattern which suddenly integrates out of the elements and forms of the former pattern.

      It is true that you cannot make a block of ice into a sphere without first crushing it, thereby losing its transparency. It is possible after a fashion to change its shape, but that is difficult. If, however, the ice is melted, the water can be poured into any mould desired and frozen again. This is a poor illustration, but it will suffice for the moment, and will give some idea of what Jesus indicated was in the grasp of every man who recognized it.

      It is written ---in the law: "Who by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" and the command "Go into all the world---take no thought about the robe, body, purse, etc."

      Why this admonition? Because by taking thought about all the ways and means and things in the uni­verse, has not helped you to get any of them. Those old, hypnotic thought-patterns are the models of ice that must be melted down instead of being changed, in order that the new design may appear.

      Do you understand why the thought-taking process (in the ordinary sense of the word) cannot change the body or the effect of the word on the body? At best it can only bring on a form of self-hypnosis. Trying to cure the body by thought is like trying to change the form of a block of ice---you may accom­plish a little something---but the results gained from working from the outside are practically nil. But in your new awareness of the Light of the Son-Father and the Holy Ghost, you find out what is taking place when the Light comes through. You become a new creature of the Christ Jesus. Do you understand what a new creature means? It is not the block of ice chiseled into a new shape, the old body patched up, the new wine in old bottles. It is a complete dis­integration of the hard, fast thought-picture manifestations which you have had, and the integration into the new idea---"The picture shown to you on the Mount."

      Every knee shall finally bend at the name (nature) of Jesus Christ. It is well with you. It is wonderful! For even as I write these words this very agreement is taking place between us---you have only to rec­ognize this in me, to reach out and Touch Me, and receive the blessing. Do you hear? The stir of the risen Lord within you will cause you to be filled with joy.

      An eagle flying swiftly over the chasm on its great strong wings is a far cry from the unhatched egg lying in the nest on the mountain peak. Within that eagle egg is contained an urge to fly. It is possible for the egg to fly through the air of course, not of its own volition, but nevertheless, it could, after a fashion, experience a sensation of flying by being thrown. It could never however, take off by its own power, even though the urge within were very strong----thus with you. In the Sonship degree of consciousness you are filled with longings for health, happiness, wealth and expression; but though you have the urge to acquire these ideals, so well-developed that it seems only a question of will-power and grit to obtain them, yet with your present equipment, it is as impossible for you to do it, as it is for an egg to fly: The pattern of consciousness must be changed in order that these things may take form in your life. They must have a new vehicle to bring them into expression---a new shape, as it were, of consciousness. With all its intense urge from within, the egg cannot fly, even though it were covered with feathers and made to appear as an eaglet. "Marvel not---ye (yes, you) must be born again" in order that the new level of spir­ituality to which you are ascending may find a con­sciousness which can take high-powered instructions, and bring you by a way "ye know not of."

      It is marvelous! As this word is being written, the room is filled with Light, all of which will pour out on you, and you will find something new, a stirring within, an awakening, and a tendency to sing within ---an inner awareness which is suddenly arousing itself. Just as in the legends, when the Prince touched the lips of the Sleeping Beauty, a great stirring---a great awakening, was suddenly brought to the whole castle and estates-life and joy began to express them­selves in the new day-the new pattern. So the Prince of Revelation has touched your lips and you are awakening from the death-sleep induced by the hyp­notism of human thinking. It is wonderful!

      When the urge for life is felt in the egg, these is a stirring, a cry within: "Give me a body." Just so, when the urge for the beautiful and happy things in life is felt within you, a cry comes up from the depths "Give me a body." You are starved to death because you have been feeding on the husks of symbolic phenomena. You are worn out with symbolic wealth which you say you possess, but can spend only in imagination. It, too, is constantly crying out, "Give me a body, give me a body." It is wonderful! this crying out of the unborn within you. "The children cry out from the loins for expression."-"Give me a body."

      So the egg rests under the warmth of the mother bird, and from the instant the center of it is touched with the warmth of love, something has started. What has started? The pattern plan is beginning to form, and that very forming of the new consciousness is going to break the shell of the old design, and change the egg into a bird. Still will it be an egg, for it has lost nothing, but has absorbed the entire substance of the egg---yet in its new expression it is not egg. So is it with you when you are absorbed into the Christ consciousness---you are no more you as of old, yet are you---but no longer under the curse which formerly governed you.

      The egg is under the curse of the law of chance. It is acted upon even as unenlightened man is acted upon by human destiny. Neither he nor the egg has capacity to get out of the way of danger. He may try it, but more than likely he will move into the path of destruction. An egg cannot move out of the way of on-coming destruction, yet as the bird, it has full capacity to do so.

      Thus, the new pattern you are to bring out is the thing that will save you from being acted upon by all the false beliefs you have about you.

      The old pattern of a diseased or worn-out body is acted upon by the beliefs of disease or age and noth­ing can be done about it. These outside forces which have been established by being accepted are there for one purpose, and that is your destruction. Nothing in the human thought can stop this, except temporarily, for this is human destiny that must be fulfilled in that degree of consciousness. Do you begin to see why Jesus came saying, "You must be born again," and why He made constant reference to the new­-borning process of life, referring always to changing of the pattern instead of patching up the old design; to disintegration of human thought-pictures and re­integration of spiritual manifestation.

      When heat permeates a grain of popcorn it is so filled with warmth that it automatically bursts into a new pattern. It cannot help itself once it is subjected to sufficient heat so is it with you. Once you subject yourself to God you cannot help or stay the change, the transformation that is bound to take place. It is automatic and is something that cannot be stayed. It is the evolving thing---the wonderful quickening of the power which destroys all former limitation. "Behold I make all things new" even your body and your world. You now see that we possess nothing that makes for bondage, but do possess all things for use and joy. The law of integrity which says, "Be careful about nothing," and at the same time says, "Pick up the pieces, see that nothing be lost," is the glorious freedom of spirit. This spirit is not wasteful, profli­gate, destructive, but lavish to such an extent that it will flow over all the earth---the great gush of life. In the jungle where growth is so prolific that one can almost hear it, every available inch of ground and space is filled with expression---trees and vines and flowers---luscious fruits, gorgeous birds---yes, the whole of creation is heaped up, is pressed down, is -crowded together, is running over with manifesta­tions. So is it with your "desert" body---which suddenly becomes a point of expression where all manifestation must and will come through into being. "Yet in my flesh shall I see God."

      Your body (temple) is the point of contact be­tween the seen and the unseen and it is only through your body that the power can be stepped down into visibility, bringing your finest fulfillment into mani­festation---actually giving you your heart's desire. It is only when the sacredness of this wonderful life comes to you that this can de achieved. It is not possible so long as you are playing around with the human idea, trying to impress someone, or to show what you can do. It is true you might have to be famous----it is nothing to be sought for, but you might be called into that expression. If so, you can handle it, if you are willing to let your consciousness be stayed on the Power, and take no personal credit or blame.

      It is wonderful what this new revelation is bring­ing through to us at this moment. You are beginning to see why you should "Come apart from among them and be separate." This is not a hiding away of the body, but a hiding away of the "Pearl of great price." You will not lack recognition when the time comes, and it will be recognition of the right sort, because a luminous soft white light of that pearl of great price will shine forth and be brighter than the noonday of all human power or glory. Do you see why there must be secrecy?

      Do you begin to see how in the hypnosis of the human mind, the temple (John Smith) has grown into a place of power (imaginary, of course), stupidly assuming the ability to do, to create and to change things? Then suddenly the John Smith finds that he has no real power, and that, even more, the John Smith temple can be used for anything. It can be the stamping-ground for all sorts of evil and sickness, it can be filled with all sorts of disease---it can be filled with filthy parasitic growth and he can do nothing about it. His body is susceptible to all this so long as it is run on the thought plan. Comes the Revelation of the Trinity, and then the pattern is completely changed, in order that the new consciousness may be a fit dwelling-place for the Lord.

      Do you begin to see now what it means to "Be still and know that I am God," instead of trying to change things----to change the shape of the ice, or to patch up the old garments. When you appropriate this revela­tion, your body is automatically transfigured by the presence of this Fatherhood degree---it is changed and made Flesh and made new. "And the glory of the Lord fills the house" (consciousness), and it comes out through all the openings of the temple. Every atom of expression is filled with Light, and you find your temple (John Smith) illumined---the strug­gle is over.

      "Who told you you were naked"---(stripped of all the necessary things for your happiness)? Why, " He," "She," "It, "but," "if," and "maybe"---they all told you, and they will keep on telling you until this whole plan of human thought is finally disinte­grated by the blending with the Father.

      All the lovely talents you possess---for "every man has his gift"---all the glorious you that has failed to come forth, is saved in this disintegrating process; the elements which have solidified about you as a pattern of evil are now disassociated and are reshaped into a new and perfect design. The grain of wheat smothered in a bushel of chaff has suddenly come into its own---it has fallen into the ground and rotted so that it could be made alive, so that it could change the pattern into a form which could carry out its new desires. So is your awakening to take place. How do I know? Because this message that I am writing was written for you---You---the reader---at this very moment. If it were not so, you would not now be pausing in holy contemplation---you would not be praising God that He had so spoken to you out of the pages of a book. Do you hear?---You who read? Do you begin to see how the smashing of these ob­solete patterns is taking place?

      In a strange and fantastic way, the old theology of orthodoxy really believed in smashing patterns, but they thought it could be accomplished only through physical death. They knew that, in order to enter Heaven, man had to change his present pattern, and that the only way to do it was to throw off the body. But in the light of the present revelation, we adhere to the Word of Jesus Christ when He says "Here and now."

      And how does this necessary disintegration take place? The Lord says, "not by thought, not by might, not by power, but by My spirit." By the spirit of this recognized Father Consciousness within you does this disintegration take place. As it begins to fall apart, you will find the light of this new revelation shining in its place and the seal will be placed upon your lips, your glorious talents and gifts will be freed from their imprisonment.

      You can go into all the world. You can go into any land, and the moment you set tip the temple within yourself, you are established. Do you hear? For you have all that it takes to establish this temple of ex­pression. You can be in the desert or in the city, physically alone, or with crowds. The moment you pitch your tent or set up your temple, your influence is felt. That is why you can cleanse the leper, raise the dead, heal the sick, etc. Do you begin to grasp the magnitude of this revelation?

      Transfigured, transformed, by the uplifting of your consciousness---do you see? Do you hear? The new clay confronts you. You go your way secretly, power­fully, without the bondage of person, book, organi­zation or thing-----you are free.

FIRST PERSON, PRESENT TENSE

Chapter Four

TALKING of and about truth, and speaking the TRUTH are radically different things. The first is merely rehearsing the letter which is dead and not effective. The latter is the "spake and it was done" state of consciousness. Jesus spoke the truth in the present tense and first person, and results or mani­festation immediately followed. "He made himself as God"---in other words He spoke as one having au­thority, because He spoke from the place of author­ity. In spite of the fact that you profess to be a follower of Jesus Christ, you are afraid to make any direct statement of good without first "knocking on wood." Why is this? On the other hand, it is quite common for people who even profess a KNOWL­EDGE of TRUTH to exclaim over evil, "Just my luck"---"It always happens to me"---"I never knew it to fail," etc., etc. In other words, you are unable to say anything good that is positive. For instance you dare not say "I shall be perfectly well this time next year"---"I shall be abundantly supplied this tine next year," etc., etc., because you are speaking always from the consciousness of John Smith which knows "When I would do good, I do evil"--"As for man, his days are few and full of trouble"---etc.

      This is all due to the fact that you are talking "of and about" Truth instead of speaking the Truth. When you speak the Truth because of your liaison with the Christ within, you can say definitely, "I will come and heal him," without any reservations, with­out any treatments, without any series of mental mechanics, because you speak with authority. There is no doubt about the results---you speak the word, and it is done, as far as you are concerned. If the other person cannot accept the truth, that is his loss. In order to practice the revelation as given to us by Jesus Christ, you must act from the standpoint of absolute authority. Very often you hear people "try­ing" to make a healing, using such terms as "we" meaning of course ^"God and I," or "I and God," according to the importance of the individual. The most one in this state of mind can get out of talking of and about the truth is personal adulation, or an emotional thrill which soon disappears.

      Taking Jesus as an example, we see in every in­stance of healing that He made an assumption of His Fatherhood degree of understanding. Hence He could make a clear statement of facts without equivocation, without fear of contradiction, a straightforward speaking of the Word---"I will come and heal him.” It would be sheer folly or conceit in Jesus or any other man to say He could heal anything. Jesus knew .this when He said "I can of myself do nothing"---"BUT"---and then the thrilling thing happens, when He merges this helplessness of human thought with the Divine and can explain "But with God all things are possible."

      It fairly makes you thrill with joy just to sense such a thing--even to read the Word. If you see, you are suddenly filled with inspiration. Think of it! "BUT" ---Jesus saying He could do nothing----helpless----hopeless-anti then suddenly "BUT"--"'With God all things are possible." are you beginning to hear, to sense---to sense "All things"---not some things, not a few things, but ALL THINGS. Do you hear? All things. Is that enough? Now do you begin to see the