THAT YE MIGHT HAVE

THAT YE MIGHT HAVE

PART TWO OF A TRILOGY

By Walter C. Lanyon

Part One - I Came

Part Two - That Ye Might Have

Part Three - Life More Abundant

This, the second volume, continues the relation of Consciousness versus Thought. A development of the Changeless Order of Being is given together with a fuller expose of the practical application of the Principle used by Jesus in his so-called miracles.

Gradually the reader becomes aware that Consciousness is not established by "Taking Thought" but by becoming aware of Consciousness. He finds that thought emanates from Consciousness as the rays of light emanate from the SUN. He discovers the reason for many of the things said by Jesus---he begins to sense in a new way how it is that "prayer is answered before it is asked"---and that the results take place while he is asking. In short, an entirely new level of understanding is revealed.

Bookhaben Press

KELLAWAY-IDE COMPANY

1114 EAST EIGHTH STREET LOS ANGELES 21, CALIFORNIA

Walter C. Lanyon

Revised Edition

Walter C. Lanyon

1956

Printed in U. S. A.

by KELLAWAY-IDE COMPANY

"The Child finds its mother when it leaves her womb. When I am parted from you, thrown out from your household, I am free to see your face, and now I walk my own willful way till my very folly tempts you to my door. For I have your promise that my portion of the best in this world will come from your hands."

CONTENTS

THE HALL OF SILENCE

SUBSTANCE

IDLE GOSSIP SINKS SHIPS

THE SPREADING DAWN

THE GOD OF LOVE

DIRECT ACTION

REINCARNATION AND YOU

THE DAY OF MIRACLES

WHITE ELEPHANTS

THE INSPIRATION

EXPERIENCE - AND STAIGHTWAY THE SPIRIT

LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU

NO COMPETITION

NO WEAPON SHALL PROSPER

IF ANY MAN

THE PERMANENT IDENTITY

EVOLUTION AND GOD

BUT WHY SHOULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?

NOTHING HIDDEN

THE YEAR OF OUR LORD

I WILL NOT LET YOU GOD

HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD

BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS HOW LONG HALT YE?

SYMBOLS

MEDITATIONS

NOT A SPARROW FALLETH

ADULTERY

PREPARATION

THE GODS GIVE THREAD

FIRE AND DUCK

NOTES

The Hall of Silence
Chapter One

“I GO TO PREPARE a place for you----that where I am there ye may be also."

The place that is prepared is the Hall of Silence in the Temple of Peace. It is more than the "closet" referred to so often---for in this Hall of Silence the completed and perfect thing is visible ere it goes down through the temple of your body to take on a material form and shape. It becomes an actual place of experience---a laboratory.

Shambala, Shangri La---even Tibet (as far as it is anything to you) are merely states of consciousness. All of them attainable by you and leading many times to bringing out a materialization of these places. I cannot understand why if your mind can go to such places, your body should not accompany it---especially if you have experienced the Union of Body and soul---God and man. Do you see why, when you have chosen the alone path you are free to go just as fast as you wish---free to "call upon Me," and to know and experience the "sustaining" Principle, in direct proportion to your acceptance?

"He shall prepare a table before ME in the presence of mine enemies." Quite a lovely promise---is it any good? Can you avail yourself of it? If not, why not?

Coming to this consciousness there are:

"No contortions, and twistings of the body in Yoga practices. No hundreds of mantras each day---repeated monotonously---no turning of prayer wheels! Just a simplicity of Nature---like the birds, the bees and the flowers. Just a natural and sweet return to God."

And so you, standing in the Hall of Silence in the Temple of Peace, are able to travel out through the Light to reach the consciousness which is calling unto you on his level of understanding, and to stimulate you to "drink deeper" of the Truth. And as the color or order of his coming intensifies, it finally reaches the great White Light of Self-revelation.

Silence is the first sign of real wisdom. Any real spiritual experience is too sacred to be profaned by words "Do you see why?" You can give it all to the world, and keep it all, but you cannot tell a thing you have experienced in the Hall of Silence, lest you find the door closed to you. "Then went he in and shut the door"---and what happened? And what will happen to you when you have, like the Arab "silently stolen away" into this Hall of Silence, and discovered the secret pattern ---the matrix, the model of that which is about to appear on the earth. It is too sacred to set down on paper that which is to be shown to you ---how it is that you can perform the whole thing in the place of Consciousness and send it forth to take on a body and form.

There is no limit to what can be accomplished through completing the recognition in the Place of Silence. Even a surgical operation, no matter how ever difficult, could be perfectly consummated and finished---so that the light passing through the various degrees could guide the hands of the one actually performing it in the operating room. And too, an operation could be so perfectly done that it would pass through into manifestation without the aid of outside hands. Do you begin to see how Jesus "went unto His Father" and accomplished His miracles before the light was stepped down from the Hall of Silence into actual embodiment in the flesh?

All this I write to you from the Plane of Revelation---you must read between the lines.

In this Hall of Silence, which is within your consciousness do you find the Secret---and you can release it in whatever form necessary. All this seems strange and vague---perhaps a little foolish as I write the words (all the wisdom of God is foolishness in the eyes of man) ---and yet YOU will understand---a real secret laboratory of the soul, which you will boldly enter and possess. "Come boldly to the throne of grace," for now you come not to get but to let the light flow from the throne of God straight though the human temple of you into expression.

"My sheep hear my voice"-do you?

"Put thou a seal upon my lips."

"Thou fool, do you not know that a seed must first fall into the ground and rot before it shall be made alive," and it means just that. Silence is absolutely necessary for the germination of any new idea, just as it is for the seed. It lies in the secret, silent place----in the darkness---hid from the prying eyes of human thought which with all its science and intellect has not yet discovered just what it is that brings about the miracle of birth. You are told to "Tell no man----show John"---but if you find you know better than Jesus did or does, then you must uncover every wonderful thing and expose it to the curious minds of unbelief and bring forth a still-born.

"See that ye tell no man"---that is a hard task for the old talking human thought. It wants to tell everything it hears, knows or even suspects, but the moment a thing is told it begins to lose power---just as the moment a valve is opened an engine loses steam. The thing that is held in secrecy within you gains momentum---builds its body in silence, and is protected from the curious unbelieving thought.

If you are an invalid and have been one for years, no one believes you are going to be healed. They may be charitable enough to want you to be well---I am not too awfully sure of this, but let us be generous and say they do---but one thing is sure, they don't believe it. You are just another of those Poor Things who are so much to be pitied.

I once heard a lady talking about how she was going to be rich---she seemed almost inspired. She told the entire law of how it was taking place---what she had learned and how she was going to gain her wealth through demonstration. As she talked the crowd gathered, half-carried away with the fervor of her words. Then all of a sudden something happened----the same thing that happens to champagne when it stands uncorked too long --- suddenly everybody seemed to feel that she was just talking and they began to titter---and she went on baring her very soul until it became almost shameful. She never got rich and finally she had to turn corners to avoid meeting some of her former listeners who always greeted her with, "Well, have the riches come yet?"

I think you will find that in this Spiritual progress, Jesus knew exactly what He was talking about when He said, "Tell nothing"---and that advice must be followed if anything is to be brought into manifestation.

Magnifying the Power of God within you until it actually becomes you is the way of automatic expression. The trained athlete does not have to force his expression of strength. A baby may have to push with all his might and main to move a ball from the table, while an athlete may brush aside an obstacle which would cause other men to put forth great effort. Why? Because of the Consciousness of Strength and Power within. It has become effortless because he is aware of the Power within his body-temple. While this illustration is a poor picture compared with the POWER within you, which can and will do the "impossible" even through your weakness"---yet it will give you something of the "feel" of what is meant by the Prayer, "Be still and know that I am God." That the very I AM within you is God in essence, and is only awaiting the opportunity of expression. It only needs to be recognized. Saying, "I recognize the Power of God within me," does no more for you than saying, "I am rich," will do to a poor man, and will only bring the derision of the crowd upon your head. But becoming conscious of God in the midst of you is another story, and this is only done by Silence and secrecy.

Every time the secret is, told you are deprived of the manifestation, and must go again the rounds of preparing the ground and planting the seed, and you will continue this monotonous repetition until you put the seal upon your lips and magnify the Power of the Lord within you.

I know people may talk and wonder what you are doing, and they may offer advice and help; but just wait---a day will come perhaps much sooner than you think---a day wherein you have filled the chalice of your consciousness with God --- to the brim --- and then "All shall be changed in the twinkling" and you can show. The mystery of this lovely working of power within you is that which brings forth the Light.

You are also told in this lesson of secrecy to "Salute no man you pass on the Highway of Life," because he is just the one to open up all the valves of the Engine and let out all the Steam. And when the boiler is cold and empty, the one "whose breath is in his nostrils" leaves a parting word with you, "Why, of course, my dear, I always knew there was nothing to it." And don't forget---that the one "whose breath is in his nostrils" may attend thousands of lectures on Truth and read every book written on the subject. If the breath has gotten no farther than his nostrils, he only chatters words and ideas---and has yet to experience the deep inbreathing of the Breath of the Lord.

Little people running about "talking truth" are like so many cotton-tails bobbing up here and there all over the place, and they want nothing more than a nice head of cabbage for dinner. I said to you, "feed my sheep''---and let the cottontails alone.

Remember you cannot prove a single word of Jesus Christ just to satisfy the curiosity of a human mind. The immovable nature of the Law makes it imperative that you come up to it before it apparently comes down to you. As you merge into this Presence you are less and less concerned about the "spreading of Truth" and more and more interested in the "letting" of the Light so shine before men, etc.

The Red flag of danger is waved in your face when it comes to talking---"FLEE" from the short-lived human inbreathed thing "whose breath is in his nostrils." Do you begin to see the difference in the awakened soul and the one who is still wandering in a dream of evil? One has his breath in his nostrils---it has not yet gone deeper---he is capable of all evil and only evil---no matter what amount of "good" he apparently accomplishes for the moment. The Other is Inbreathed with the breath of Life---he has become a LIVING Soul which cannot and does not die. Do you begin to see that when you are inbreathed with the Breath of Life you are for the first time at the portals of immortality?

"FLEE"---it is a sudden warning and danger signal. Don't tell a thing. Agree with him instantly, even if he says there is no God, for that is true to him, and you are only agreeing with his state of mind. "Agree with thine adversary" --- the short-breathed thing which knows evil, and denies, even when he is acknowledging ---God. The agreement with his evil will give him the chance of handling it in his own way.

"Let the earth keep silent before me and renew her strength." If your earth or body has been all shot to pieces by the years of talking of and about the Truth, presently you will feel the great soft folds of silence enveloping you. And presently you will feel the "renewing" of your earth-body and affairs. The Power is as gentle as the shepherd leading "those that are with young." You are with young---a great flock of new and lovely ideas which are to be brought out ---but you must stay out of the highways and byways of human thought and talk. You can do this even while you are apparently in the midst of it, by placing the Seal upon your lips.

So many souls awaken in the midst of such Bedlam that it seems almost hopeless to extricate themselves---fighting, arguing and beating against circumstances will do nothing. Presently in the deep place of secrecy is found the place of recognition. On the outside the whirl of evil continues, but it receives no more life-substance from you---you are judging not from appearances but righteous judgment, and are magnifying in silence "these things in your heart." And then one day---perhaps the very next---the door is suddenly sprung open and you go free into the new day of expression.

Silence is the first indication of real understanding. People who know the deep mysteries do not talk about them. Can you imagine Jesus advertising all sorts of new ideas and tricks to be given at His next talk? Can you see that the more and larger the benefits advertised, the farther the whole thing is from the Truth of Jesus Christ? "The fame of Him went abroad over all Israel." There were no radios, loud speakers or amplifiers---(the still small voice does not need to be amplified), no newspapers, no cinemas, no "Believe it -or Nots"----there was just---What? Just the same thing which is at this moment welling up in you----there was and is just GOD---waiting for the opportunity to express through you. When He Knows, then the world knows---so "See that you tell no man"---the "Fame of you (if necessary) will go abroad in all Israel." You cannot fail on this secret mission, because that which is known of God is known of man as manifestation. And that which you tell in secret shall be called from the housetops. It is wonderful and glorious this sudden coming into the place of secrecy and silence. "Keep silent before ME." And presently you will "Stand upon your watch and see what the Spirit has to say unto you." It has plenty to say unto you---it has the plan for the Father's business, which is to be carried out through your temple.

This secrecy does not imply a withdrawing from the world or from people---"In the world but not of it." In the midst of the most noisy turmoil---yet not of it, or far away from it all. This Secrecy does not make you strange and different, but it makes you unconsciously powerful, and you will have this verified at the strangest moments of your on-going. Someone will "See the Light" in you and put it into some kind of words---a little acknowledgment along the highway of Life.

Note how it was that Jesus never helped or healed anyone unless they came first to Him and acknowledged the God within Him---and then He spoke freely what the Spirit had to say unto that individual. You remember, too, that "You need but open your mouth---I will supply the words" will give you the exact or unique word of help or releasement to say to the one who is asking. But be sure they are asking.

Once you are over the first "hurdle" of holding your tongue and keeping within the good things you know, there will come a positive joy in the new secrecy which possesses you. You will listen, and listen and listen---and my, oh my, what you will hear! And presently you will begin to "hear" something as you listen, and it will enable you to diagnose everything that comes to you without difficulty.

When the boiler can hold no more steam and the pressure has reached its maximum, then something has got to take place. So keep every valve closed. Don't tell anyone---not even your Spiritual Adviser ---about the deep and lovely desires and secrets that are within your soul. No one is safe with the Annunciation message but you, so keep it locked within your soul. You have much to accomplish before it comes into manifestation, but nothing that cannot take place easily and naturally if you have kept silent. As you wait upon ME, sometimes the old human mind gets excited and worried, but the voice within says, "The time is not yet," "Be still and Know that I AM God" -and again you magnify the Power and wait in the Holy Silence with this glorious assurance in you, "It is Done," it is gathering a body together for expression.

Nothing can come through the confusion of human thinking, because the moment an idea is placed on earth the Herod-thought tries to kill it---the human thought will kill every "Male child" you try to bring to earth. So don't be a "wise man" and tell where the event is to take place---"Keep silent before Me."

Did you ever think of what great trouble the Wise Men actually caused because they ran about telling of things to come? Two thousand children were killed as a result of it. I imagine it was time for them to leave town after starting that sort of thing---don't you? Don't be a "Wise Man" literally---and yet symbolically you are the Wise Man and see the Lovely Star in the East that leads you to the very spot where your manifestation is taking place and that "Spot" is within you. How wonderful it all is---so filled with glory and light and so fraught with power.

So are you cloaked in silence and secrecy---knowing that when you speak, you speak no longer of yourself, "but of Him that sent ME," into expression. When you are thus speaking, you are speaking in the first person and the present tense, otherwise you are speaking of and about truth---either past or future ---and nothing happens. When you speak the WORD of God it does not return unto you void, but does accomplish whereunto it is sent---but when you speak the "words" of man they scatter like the host of troubles released from the Pandora Box and bring only evil to you.

"Put thou a seal upon my lips----."

Substance

Chapter Two

AN EAGER student of Truth once went to India to study the ways of the far east under a great teacher, who was reputed to hold Truth above everything else in the world.

Having whole-heartedly accepted the world's dictum that poverty and asceticism must go hand in hand with spirituality, the student had long since taken the vow of poverty. What was his horror to find the Master, not sitting in a loin cloth under a banyan tree, but living in ease and comfort in a marble palace, surrounded by treasures that beggared the splendors of the Arabian Nights. Further, the Master was beautifully dressed --- in Oriental fashion --- and wore magnificent jewels.

The student was unable to restrain his amazement, and spoke at some length of his views on the fleshpots of Egypt and the uselessness of material possessions. The Master sat quietly by on his luxurious divan, waiting for the student to finish his tirade against riches, luxury and worldly goods. And then he spoke:

"It is not the possession of things, but the possession by them that counts---I have no interest in things for their worldly value, but for the beauty and comfort they give me."

This did not please the young student, who argued that if the Master had no interest in them, he should renounce them all. Even while he spoke, an alarm of fire was heard in the palace, and through the wide-open portals of the spacious rooms could be seen the flames, hungrily devouring at the precious works of art. As the Master seemed quite unperturbed, the student jumped into action, shouting frantic orders to the servants as to how the furnishings and art treasures should be saved.

The Teacher sat quietly by. The student rushed over to him: "Get up and help---all these wonderful and valuable things are being destroyed." But still the Teacher sat and smiled. Finally, worn out with his efforts, the breathless student once more implored the Master: "For the love of God, do something to save all this wealth," and the Teacher answered: "I am not concerned. I possess it now, and can always replace it, but as `wealth' it has no value to me. Yet you, who have come all this way to tell me how you have renounced wealth, are in a terrible state of excitement and rage over the destruction of that which you have repeatedly told me was nothing." Then, as the astounded student looked about him, he saw that the fire had receded, and had left no trace of damage.

There is a difference in possessing things and being possessed by them---and so watch out that your condemnation of money and wealth is not motivated by the sad knowledge that you cannot attract it. Many people who claim that "things do not matter" only say so because they cannot get things. And many a person has taken the poverty vow because he already had so much poverty in his life that he knew nothing else to worship.

As long as you have to have a chair, it might just as well be the type and kind which pleases you most. The value being put on it by man makes it valueless to God. I have seen the chair that a so-called famous personage sat in raised to such value that one could have bought perhaps a thousand chairs of the same make and age for the price. And the bed of a French Court favorite has brought such a fabulous price that it was fantastic---yet the bed and the chair were comparatively worthless in materials---the only value was that placed on them by man. Rosewood is burned for firewood in some parts of the world---and yet rosewood in some places is very valuable.

Do you begin to see how it is that before any sense of substance can come through to you the value of things must be taken away from them---this does not imply disrespect for works of art or even things for everyday use---but it breaks down one of the great barriers between you and the manifestation. Do you possess things or do they possess you?

The apparent failure of prayers for substance is due to the fact that man has mistakenly placed the idea of substance in the "thing" instead of in what is back of it. The substance is not in the symbol of money but in what is back of it---as has been so clearly demonstrated by the various inflations and failures of monetary systems? It is a big step towards the possession of substance when the LOVE of things and money is taken away. Then nothing is found to be wrong with the money or things, and the recognition of the primal substance is placed in God instead of in the shadow of matter cast for the moment into expression. Feathers and beads were given in exchange for much land---yet of what value are those feathers and beads today?

Are you fooled in your understanding of the Truth to the extent that you say one thing with your lips and feel another with your heart? I often hear people say, "I want no money except for the bare necessities of life." That is subterfuge---if you don't believe it, while that one is talking drop a dime on the pavement and see what happens! If you don't want money in a land where money is absolutely essential for the convenience of exchange it is time you checked on your honesty of purpose. Don't fool yourself in wanting to serve the world when you cannot serve yourself. Do you begin to understand why the Master has given such strict and meager---yet elaborate---instructions for it all. "He that hath eyes let HIM see what the scriptures say unto the churches" (temples-bodies). What the Scriptures say unto your church-body is for you and only for you, and through this Temple service are you able to "let your light so shine" that there will be "enough and to spare" of everything necessary for you to carry on the expression of the John Smith incarnation you have taken on at this time.

Until you can see this "substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen" you can expect few and small financial returns from affirmations and following organizational instructions of how to "get what you want."

The "Hand-writing on the wall" is plain. When you begin to "watch" with the single eye you will detect the spurious from the true. Jesus offered no courses in "how to get health, wealth and happiness" in twenty-five lessons for so many dollars. He held no secret KEY to the Truth for which he charged a price. He made it especially clear that no man had a special dispensation, or enjoyed any preferred rights that all men did not have the same opportunity to appropriate. There is only one mediator, remember. Location has nothing to do with God---and so, He is as much present in the worst sump-hole of so-called iniquity as He is on the most lofty mountain or temple dedicated to HIM. If God is all-present HE is---or else HE isn't. Choose ye this day whom you will serve----for when you serve God He "will give YOU (not you and some secret method or group---but you) the desires of your heart." It says the desires of YOUR heart---and it does not qualify those desires; and it also says that windows will be opened in Heaven (your consciousness) and blessings will be poured out to such an extent that you cannot receive them. The John Smith incarnation has never dreamed of such things---in fact he cannot think of it because it is not possible on the three-dimensional plane of his thinking. But nevertheless it is so, and it is true.

Once the old idea of demonstrating money is destroyed in you, you will see that substance is as natural and normal as anything else in life. Your breathing is natural and normal until you get the human thought in the way of it---and then it becomes congested and produces a stoppage.

So is it with substance. The impossible becomes the possible when you stop trying to make it happen, and find it NATURAL. The going unto the Father----the blending into the ONENESS of God---the recognition of your permanent identity---all these things bring you to understand that substance is natural and real; and is not at the beck and call of human thought.

A woman told me she had "worker" as a practitioner for God for twenty years, and yet she did not have carfare home. She was worthy and she was apparently honest, but the fly in the ointment was that she imagined she had been "working for God" when she collected all fees and lived from them, and also when she wondered (of course as she explained it was none of her business, nor was she criticizing) how her friend who "did not work for God," but lived joyously and happily, could have everything, and live a life of silken dalliance. Well, the harder you "work" for money the poorer you get---and the more you stop "working" for money the greater the possibility of the LIFE element functioning through your temple-being. It is all contrary to your course o twenty-five lessons for twenty-five dollars---but everything in God's kingdom is contrary to the laws of man for the simple reason that "the WISDOM of man (and that includes your twenty-five lessons at twenty-five dollars) is foolishness in the eyes of God." If it is all "foolishness," then what can you expect to do about it? And will you find yourself caught in the same false equation in which the student in India found himself---saying one thing but believing another? As a man "thinketh (feels) in his heart so is he."

How do you feel about money anyway? Don't tell me---tell yourself---perhaps you will be surprised at what you hear.

Of course at the heart of the "love" of money is the fear that something might cut things off for you and that you would eventually die for want of bread. This fear is backed up by plenty of tangible evidence ---there are plenty of appearances to justify the fear ---that is why Jesus said, "He that loseth his LIFE shall find it." He that loses his individual separate life shall find the Universal Life, which is not at any time deprived of its manifestation. It is only the thought of separation which causes the idea of lack to manifest in the world of matter.

The contemplation of Oneness fills you with light and revitalizes all fear of lack. Arising from this "touch" with Oneness, this recognition of the ALL, causes man to experience the manifestation of substance in whatever degree he can "take it." There are thousands of degrees of substance and what is wealth to one is poverty to another---yet it makes no difference about that---your degree is your own---and if it is not large enough to meet the needs amply and beautifully, it is time for you to push out from the shores of your former limitations---to launch out onto the deeper waters---to enlarge the borders of your tent.

Such a wonderful new vista opens before the individual when he even touches the ONENESS of Life. He begins to sense-feel dimensions of God which cannot be easily set down in black and white. He looks again and sees things taking place which cannot happen---and by a way which is natural and normal, instead of supernatural, as it was in the days of waiting for miracles or magic to happen.

It is recorded that "their clothes waxed not old----nor their shoes," etc.---and they had been using them for forty years. See anything in this? How does it fit in with the law of friction, deterioration, age and all the rest of the man-science laws? Just cannot be, can it? Well, of course not. You have never seen it happen and no man can prove it---so it must be foolishness---and so it is in the eyes of man. But why in heaven's name will that very same man try to "demonstrate" money or jobs or health, since they are all quite as impossible.

Remember, too, that just because you have never seen a thing done does not mean that it cannot be done ---and also that you will never see it done as long as you indulge in any curiosity, for curiosity is merely disbelief which hopes to get by and "peep" into the holies of holies.

Remember there are "no peepers allowed" in the Kingdom of Heaven---for nothing is going to profane the works and the powers of God. "All Power is given unto me"---and when you begin to sense this, "Look again, the fields are white," you will also begin to understand why the "grain of mustard" can also do the works---and so on down the line of Life.

You have been told that a "rich man cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven," and have misunderstood this to mean a man with many possessions; yet it could mean a man possessed of the love of money, while yet wanting for love of anything else. It is merely an attempt to show you that the worship of anything other than God is one of the ways to keep you out of this consciousness of ease and substance. The rich man referred to may be "RICH" in many things---that is, he may have an abundance of evil in his soul, or judging, condemning, criticizing, and the like---and he may also have a large bank account. But the "rich man" is many times the poor man when it comes to actual dollars and cents. The "RICH YOUNG MAN" could not let go of his worship of money as a power apart from God--- hence he could not enter in, for he depended on things and not on God. Do you begin to see how it is that the value placed on money is what keeps it away from you; and how it is that the "trying" to demonstrate it only puts you in the power of the gods of man's creating? Money is the chief god of this thought-taking world, and if you fall down and worship this god you must commit your ways unto him and be directed by him in order to attain money. When a person sets out to demonstrate a fortune---he immediately runs into the battle with the gods of this world, and naturally he is going to be defeated.

"Render unto Caesar, the things that are Caesar's." Do you begin to understand a little of the laws of Substance?

"You shall ask whatsoever you will and it shall be done unto you"---that is a pretty large order, but it is true---your "whatsoever" is what you ask for and that is all you can get, no matter how much another takes by the same asking. "Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light---awake and arise from the dead!"

The vacuum created by human want increases until it fills all space in the human thinking and brings with it the manifestation of this thought. The vacuum created by the belief in lack with the five thousand was as real to Jesus as it was to any of the men. He recognized their law of hunger and lack---and fatigue---He said something to the effect that they had been three days without bread---etc.---etc.---but notice what happened. "Then lifted He His eyes to Heaven and gave thanks." We see Him, right before their eyes blending with the ONE and giving thanks for the Presence---and instantly there was the inrush of Substance that filled the vacuum of human thinking. In a little while the belief in hunger was gone---and a surplus left of twelve hampers of scraps! I mention these twelve hampers because they should have been sizeable---and where did they come from? Ever think about all the things that are sandwiched in between the lines of the Bible for those who have "eyes"? The manifestation of twelve hampers to hold so much bread would be a man-sized job in itself, and quite as wonderful as the production of bread and fishes!

The wonder of it all was to happen the next morning when they came to Him again for bread, and He said to them: "You seek Me for the Bread, but you cannot find Me---did you not see the MIRACLE"----in other words, did you not "get on" to the working of the law of Christ Jesus and would therefore be able to do the same thing yourself ? And this surprised question was addressed not only to his disciples and especially close followers, but also to the simple man in the street---indicating that all could have done the same thing if they had so much as glimpsed the LAW. Isn't it wonderful how simple it all was to Jesus, and isn't it revealing to you to note the surprise He always expressed that the man in the street did not follow His example, after being shown the way. Well, it is enough to make your heart burn within you to know that we are now approaching the wonderful Revelation of Jesus Christ---even though it has been two thousand years.

The point of attack with Jesus seemed to be, "None of these things (appearances) move Me"---not any of them---that was His first reaction. He simply was not affected by appearances. He did not demonstrate over them---He did not recognize them. He moved into the next dimension of Life where the things of the lesser dimension had no power or reality---and invited you to do the same thing, saying that it was all possible to a child.

Yes, it is necessary to go over and over the wonder of it all, and to note from time to time that you were Created-(not born) a little lower than the angels, and given dominion over everything on, over and under the earth, skies, and waters. That's the fact of your case---and the sooner you hark back to that place of Power, the sooner you will find many of the "inventions and creations" of mankind fading into the nothingness of yesterday. The sooner you make your assumption of your Oneness with God, as something more than an affirmation of truth, you will change the face of many things. Remembering all the while that you were given dominion over everything and that means EVERYTHING. What say? Do you begin to understand how it is that the little symbol of money, which today is and tomorrow is not, cannot control you nor regulate your life, nor stop your life from its functioning, as long as you are "hid with Christ (your consciousness) in God."

"He openeth His Hand and satisfieth the desires of every living thing." Do you hear?

Idle Gossip Sinks Ships

Chapter Three

I RECEIVED a letter today.---The information printed on the envelope by the U. S. Government, sounded not unlike some of the words of Jesus Christ.

And yet you say that "words" are not powerful! I question the use of "idle" in front of gossip, for in my opinion there is no other kind. But the whole thing tells a story too important to be missed.

The WORD of God goes through into manifestation whenever spoken in the NATURE (name of Jesus Christ), and in like manner the "words" of the human mind accomplish their degree of evil with the same apparent ease. The Human mind is concerned with "words," the Divine has the "WORD" and while to some this may seem a play on "words," yet to the one who has "eyes to see" there is something of great import.

Gradually we are beginning to see that, "as in Christ all shall be made alive, so in Adam all shall die." That is, as in the WORD of God all goodness and heaven shall come into being---so by the words of Adam (human thought all shall die---be killed. The Word of God is quick and Powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword, and that is why Jesus counseled us to be alert to this WORD, and to flee from the man who is filled with "words": opinions, beliefs, gossip, scandal. Do you begin to see what is taking place in the world of "words"---in the level of human thought?

It is recorded that harlots, thieves, murderers, liars, etc., all go into kingdom of heaven before the scandal-monger. And that is because it is easier to justify any of those crimes, than it is the crime of gossip and scandal. I am sure the scandal-monger who has caused something terrible to happen by his talk has a very difficult job getting into the kingdom of Heaven-----into the state of Consciousness where Contentment and Peace abide.

Some time ago a girl returned from the east and brought with her a baby---she said she had been married secretly. Six months afterwards they found her dead in her home---the doctor could find no apparent cause for her death. Can you?

She had been stoned to death---silently pelted with pity, sympathy and downright murderous thoughts, which she didn't know how to escape. There was a good deal of wailing at the funeral, and it is reported that half a hundred wonderful people came forward and offered to see that the little mite had a good home. But you know how it is. Or do you?

If you are Hid with Christ in God, you begin to know that there is no such thing as an illegitimate creation---how could there be? And this is not to condone irregularities in the human code, but to prove to you that when the Urge of Spirit comes to express itself in a new temple it will supply the way and means. And the thought that God's creation has to be stamped "illegitimate" is too grotesque to stand the simple honest light of day.

All of us are illegitimate, for that matter, until we suddenly claim the same Father Jesus had ---"Call no man your Father." Why? Because if you do, you have all the damning inheritance of the illegitimate son---the bastard. There is the son of the bond-woman, and the Son of the Free---and all these things are for you to contemplate.

Many people who profess to believe in the Bible exclaim, of course, "I believe that God is my Father." Well, that changes the whole picture if you do---for in that case you have ceased the inheritance of the Adam affair and have begun to call upon ME---to look unto ME---and to ask of ME---and as surely as the material father would supply you with good Gifts, I can much more supply you with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Do you begin to see how everything that is not born of God is illegitimate and must come under the condemnation of the illegitimate? No wonder that so many things you try to do go wrong---you are stoned, too, in one way or another because of this illegitimacy. All this will reveal itself to you.

We are beginning to see and sense what it is to be born of God---it means we are experiencing in a degree the immaculate conception---we are beginning to "call no man our father," and to look---actually and practically---to God as the source of LIFE and everything necessary for Life.

All the human patterns differ in various countries ---what is sin in one place is not in another---but what is sin in the eyes of God is always a sin in any climate, country or time. What is a traffic law in one city is not in another, but God's laws are not of such material---they are the same and just as operative in one place as another. That is why there is just as much substance in the Sahara Desert as there is in the Bank of England---if you know it--- (not if you try to demonstrate it---but if you KNOW it). A little while ago I might have said, "There is just as much gold buried in Kentucky as there is in the Bank of England," and been laughed at---but---"Behold, I make all things new"---is all enough, or do you want more?

And here comes that monotonous question again: "Do you believe it?" "Why, of course I believe (aside), but why don't I see it?" Do you understand a little? Are you peeping through the keyhole to the door of Heaven and beginning to see that "words" are nothing when it comes to Spiritual revelation? Do you believe that your Father is God? Are you a child of Love, or are you one of that grand army of unwanted people? You know what I mean, don't you? And you are beginning to see all about this illegitimate idea, too---and that it is not giving anybody license to handle with impunity the code of decency.