the secret door of success

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THE SECRET DOOR TO SUCCESS

"So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass,

when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a reatshout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the cit!, eer! man

straiht before him, and the! too# the cit!$"%&oshua ':()$

* successful man is alwa!s as#ed%"+hat is the secret of !our success"

-eople neer as# a man who is a failure, "+hat is the secret of !our failure" .t is /uite

eas! to see and the! are not interested$

-eople all want to #now how to open the secret door of success$

0or each man there is success, but it seems to be behind a door or wall$ .n the 1iblereadin, we hae heard the wonderful stor! of the fallin of the walls of &ericho$

Of course all biblical stories hae a metaph!sical interpretation$

+e will tal# now about !our wall of &ericho: the wall separatin !ou from success$2earl! eer!one has built a wall around his own &ericho$

This cit! !ou are not able to enter, contains reat treasures3 !our diinel! desined

success, !our heart4s desire5

+hat #ind of wall hae !ou built around !our &ericho Often, it is a wall of resentment%resentin someone, or resentin a situation, shuts off !our ood$

.f !ou are a failure and resent the success of someone else, !ou are #eepin awa! !our

own success$

. hae ien the followin statement to neutrali6e en! and resentment$

+hat 7od has done for others, He now does for me and more$

* woman was filled with en! because a friend had receied a ift, she made this

statement, and an e8act duplicate of the ift was ien her%plus another present$

.t was when the children of .srael shouted, that the walls of &ericho fell down$ +hen !ou

ma#e an affirmation of Truth, !our wall of &ericho totters$

. ae the followin statement to a woman: The walls of lac# and dela! now crumble

awa!, and . enter m! -romised 9and, under race$ She had a iid picture of steppin

oer a fallen wall, and receied the demonstration of her ood, almost immediatel!$


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.t is the word of reali6ation which brins about a chane in !our affairs3 for words and

thouhts are a form of radioactiit!$

Ta#in an interest in !our wor#, en;o!in what !ou are doin opens the secret door to

success$

* number of !ears ao . went to California to spea# at the different centers, b! wa! of

the -anama Canal, and on the boat . met a man named &im Tull!$

0or !ears he had been a tramp$ He called himself The


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Tal#in too much about !our affairs, scatterin !our forces, brins !ou up aainst a hih

wall$ . #new a man of brains and abilit!, who was a complete failure$

He lied with his mother and aunt, and . found that eer! niht when he went home to

dinner, he told them all that had ta#en place durin the da! at the office3 he discussed his

hopes, his fears, and his failures$

. said to him, ">ou scatter !our forces b! tal#in about !our affairs$ Don4t discuss !our

business with !our famil!$ Silence is 7olden5"

He too# m! lead$ Durin dinner he refused to tal# about business, His mother and aunt

were in despair: The! loed to hear all about eer!thin3 but his silence proed olden5

2ot lon after, he was ien a position at one hundred dollars a wee#, and in a few !ears,

he had a salar! of three hundred dollars a wee#$

Success is not a secret, it is a S!stem$

=an! people are up aainst the wall of discouraement$ Courae and endurance are partof the s!stem$ +e read this in lies of all successful men and women$

. had an amusin e8perience which brouht this to m! notice$ . went to a moin picturetheatre to meet a friend$

+hile waitin, . stood near a !oun bo!, sellin prorams$

He called to people passin, "1u! a complete proram of the picture, containin

photoraphs of the actors and a s#etch of their lies$"

=ost people passed b! without bu!in$ To m! reat surprise, he suddenl! turned to me,

and said%"Sa!, this ain?t no rac#et for a u! with ambition5"

Then he ae a discourse on success$ He said, "=ost people ie up ;ust before

somethin bi is comin to them$ * successful man neer ies up$

Of course . was interested and said, ".4ll brin !ou a boo# the ne8t time . come$ .t iscalled The 7ame of 9ife and How to -la! .t$ >ou will aree with a lot of the ideas$"

* wee# or two later . went bac# with the boo#$

The irl at the tic#et office said to him%"9et me read it, Eddie, while !ou are sellin

prorams$" The man who too# tic#ets leaned oer to see what it was about$

"The 7ame of 9ife" alwa!s ets people4s interest$


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. returned to the theatre in about three wee#s, Eddie had one$ He had e8panded into a

new ;ob that he li#ed$ His wall of &ericho had crumbled, he had refused to be

discouraed$

Onl! twice, is the word success mentioned in the 1ible%both times in the 1oo# of

&oshua$

"Onl! be stron and er! couraeous to obsere to do accordin to all the law which

=oses, m! serant, commanded thee: turn not from it to the riht nor to the left, that thouma!est hae ood success whithersoeer thou oest$ This boo# of the law shall not depart

from th! mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein da! and niht, that thou ma!est obsere

to do all that is written therein, for then shalt thou ma#e th! wa! prosperous and thou

shalt hae ood success$ Turn not to the riht nor to the left$"

The road to success is a straiht and narrow path3 it is a road of loin absorption, of

undiided attention$

">ou attract the thins !ou ie a reat deal of thouht to$"

So if !ou ie a reat deal of thouht to lac#, !ou attract lac#, if !ou ie a reat deal of

thouht to in;ustice, !ou attract more in;ustice$

&oshua said, "*nd it shall come to pass, that when the! ma#e a lon blast with the ram4s

horn, and when !e hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a reat

shout: and the wall of the cit! shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, eer!

man straiht before him$"

The inner meanin of this stor!, is the power of the word, !our word which dissoles

obstacles, and remoes barriers$

+hen the people shouted the walls fell down$

+e find in fol#lore and fair! stories, which come down from leends founded on Truth,

the same idea%a word opens a door or cleaes a roc#$

+e hae it aain in the *rabian 2iht4s Stor!, "*li 1aba and The 0ort! Thiees$" . saw itmade into a moin picture$

*li 1aba has a secret hidin place, hidden somewhere behind roc#s and mountains, theentrance ma! onl! be ained b! spea#in a secret word$%.t is "Open Sesame5"

*li 1aba faces the mountain and cries%"Open Sesame5" and the roc#s slide apart$

.t is er! inspirin, for it ies !ou the reali6ation of how >OUR own roc#s and barriers,

will part at the riht word$


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So let us now ta#e the statement%The walls of lac# and dela! now crumble awa!, and .enter m! -romised 9and, under race$

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*nes =$ 9awson in her "Hints to 1ible Students" sa!s%"The 9ife in E!pt under

forein oppression is the s!mbol of man under the hard tas#masters of Destructiethin#in, -ride, 0ear, Resentment, .llwill, etc$ The delierance under =oses is the

freedom man ains from the tas#masters, as he learns the law of life, for we can neer

come under race, e8cept we first #now the law$ The law must be made #nown in orderto be fulfilled$"

.n the AAAth -salm we read in the final erse, "The fear of the 9ord law is the beinninof +isdom: a ood understandin hae all the! that do his commandments: his praise

endureth foreer$"

2ow if we read the word 9ord law it will ie us the #e! to the statement$

The fear of the law


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>our doubts and fears #eep !ou in slaer!3 !ou face a situation which seems hopeless3

+hat can !ou do .t is a case of ma#in bric#s without straw$

1ut remember the words of &ehoah, "7o therefore now, and wor#3 for there shall no

straw be ien !ou, !et shall !e delier the tale number of bric#s$"

>ou shall ma#e bric#s without straw$ 7od ma#es a wa! where there is no wa!5

. was told the stor! of a woman who needed mone! for her rent: it was necessar! to haeit at once, she #new of no channel, she had e8hausted eer! aenue$

Howeer, she was a Truth student, and #ept ma#in her affirmations$ Her do whined

and wanted to o out, she put on his leash and wal#ed down the street, in the accustomeddirection$

Howeer, the do pulled at his leash and wanted to o in another direction$

She followed, and in the middle of the bloc#, opposite an open par#, she loo#ed down,

and pic#ed up a roll of bills, which e8actl! coered her rent$

She loo#ed for ads, but neer found the owner$ There were no houses near where she

found it$

The reasonin mind, the intellect, ta#es the throne of -haraoh in !our consciousness$ .t

sa!s continuall!, ".t can4t be done$ +hat4s the use5"

+e must drown out these drear! suestions with a ital affirmation5

0or e8ample ta#e this statement: "The une8pected happens, m! seeminl! impossibleood now comes to pass$" This stops all arument from the arm! of the aliens the

reasonin mind$

"The une8pected happens5" That is an idea it cannot cope with$

"Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies$" >our enem! thouhts, !our doubts, fears

and apprehensions5

Thin# of the ;o! of reall! bein free foreer, from the -haraoh of the oppression$ To hae

the idea of securit!, health, happiness and abundance established in the subconscious$ .twould mean a life free from all limitation5

.t would be the


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0eel rich and successful, and suddenl! !ou receie a lare che/ue or a beautiful ift$

. tell the stor! showin the wor#in of this law$ . went to a part! where people pla!edames, and whoeer won, receied a ift$ The pri6e was a beautiful fan$

*mon those present, was a er! rich woman, who had eer!thin$ Her name was Clara$The poorer and resentful ones ot toether and whispered: "+e hope Clara doesn4t et the

fan$" Of course Clara won the fan$

She was carefree and ibratin to abundance$ En! and resentment shortcircuit !our

ood and #eep awa! !our fans$

.f !ou should happen to be resentful and enious, ta#e the statement3 +hat 7od has donefor others He now does for me and more5

Then all the fans and thins will come !our wa!$

2o man ies to himself but himself, and no man ta#es awa! from himself but himself:

the "7ame of 9ife" is a ame of solitaire3 as !ou chane, all conditions will chane$

2ow to o bac# to -haraoh the oppressor3 no one loes an oppressor$

. remember a friend . had man! !ears ao, her name was 9ettie3 her father had plent! of

mone! and supplied her mother and herself with food and clothes, but no lu8uries$

+e went to *rt School toether, and all the students would bu! reproductions of the"+ined ictor!," "+histler4s =other" or somethin to brin art into their homes$

=! friend4s father called all these thins "plunder$" He would sa!, "Don4t brin home an!plunder$"

So she lied a colorless life without a "+ined ictor!" on her bureau or "+histler4s=other" on the wall$

He would sa! often to m! friend and her mother, "+hen . die, !ou4ll both be well off$"

One da! someone said to 9ettie, "+hen are !ou oin abroad" all art students went

abroad$

She replied, cheerfull!, "2ot ?till -apa dies$"

So people alwa!s loo# forward to bein free from lac# and oppression$

9et us now free ourseles from the t!rants of neatie thin#in: we hae been slaes to

doubts, fears and apprehension and let us be deliered as =oses deliered the Children of

.srael3 and come out of the 9and of E!pt, out of the House of 1ondae$


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0ind the thouht which is !our reat oppressor3 find the


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"*2D 0.E O0 THE= +ERE +.SE"

"*nd fie of them were wise, and fie were foolish$ The! that were foolish too# their

lamps, and too# no oil with them"%=ath$ (@:(:F$

=! sub;ect is the parable of the +ise and the 0oolish irins$ "*nd fie of them were

wise, and fie were foolish$ The! that were foolish too# their lamps, and too# no oil withthem$ 1ut the wise too# oil in their essels with their lamps$" The parable teaches that

true pra!er means preparation$

&esus Christ said, "*nd all thins, whatsoeer !e shall as# in pra!er, beliein, !e shallreceie" =ath$ (A:(($ "Therefore . sa! unto !ou, what thins soeer !e desire, when !e

pra!, beliee that !e receie them, and !e shall hae them" =ar# AA:(G$ .n this parable

he shows that onl! those who hae prepared for their ood thereb! showin actie faith

will brin the manifestation to pass$

+e miht paraphrase the scriptures and sa!: +hen !e pra! beliee !e hae it$ +hen !epra! *CT as if !ou hae alread! receied$

*rmchair faith or roc#in chair faith, will neer moe mountains$ .n the armchair, in thesilence, or meditation, !ou are filled with the wonder of this Truth, and feel that !our

faith will neer waer$ >ou #now that The 9ord is !our Shepherd, !ou shall neer want$

>ou feel that !our 7od of -lent! will wipe out all burdens of debt or limitations$ Then!ou leae !our armchair and step out into the arena of 9ife$ .t is onl! what !ou do in the

arena that counts$

. will ie !ou an illustration showin how the law wor#s3 for faith without action is

dead$

* man, one of m! students, had a reat desire to o abroad$ He too# the statement: . ie

than#s for m! diinel! desined trip, diinel! financed, under race, in a perfect wa!$ He

had er! little mone!, but #nowin the law of preparation, he bouht a trun#$ .t was a

er! a! and happ! trun# with a bi red band around its waist$ +heneer he loo#ed at itit ae him a reali6ation of a trip$ One da! he seemed to feel his room moin$ He felt the

motion of a ship$ He went to the window to breathe the fresh air, and it smelt li#e the

aroma of the doc#s$ +ith his inner ear he heard the shrie# of a seaull and the crea#inof the anplan#$ The trun# had commenced to wor#$ .t had put him in the ibration of

his trip$ Soon after that, a lare sum of mone! came to him and he too# the trip$ He said

afterwards that it was perfect in eer! detail$

.n the arena of 9ife we must #eep ourseles tunedup to concert pitch$


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*re we actin from moties of fear or faith +atch !our moties with all dilience, for

out of them are the issues of life$

.f !our problem is a financial one and it usuall! is, !ou must #now how to wind

!ourself up financiall!, and #eep wound up b! alwa!s actin !our faith$ The material

attitude towards mone! is to trust in !our salar!, !our income and inestments, which canshrin# oer niht$

The spiritual attitude toward mone! is to trust in 7od for !our suppl!$ To #eep !ourpossessions, alwa!s reali6e that the! are 7od in manifestation$ "+hat *llah has ien

cannot be diminished," then if one door shuts another door, immediatel!, opens$

2eer oice lac# or limitation for "b! !our words !ou are condemned$" >ou combinewith what !ou notice, and if !ou are alwa!s noticin failure and hard times, !ou will

combine with failure and hard times$

>ou must form the habit of liin in the fourth dimension, "The +orld of the+ondrous$" .t is the world where !ou do not ;ude b! appearances$

>ou hae trained !our inner e!e to see throuh failure into success, to see throuh

sic#ness into health to see throuh limitation into plent!$ . will ie !ou the land which

!our inner e!e sees$ ". will ie to !ou the land which thou seeth$"

The man who achiees success has the fi8ed idea of success$ .f it is founded on a roc# of

truth and rihtness it will stand$ .f not, it is built upon sand and washed into the sea,

returnin to its natie nothinness$

Onl! diine ideas can endure$ Eil destro!s itself, for it is a cross current aainst

uniersal order, and the wa! of the transressor is hard$

"The! that were foolish too# their lamps, and too# no oil with them$ 1ut the wise too# oil

in their essels with their lamps$"

The lamp s!mboli6es man4s consciousness$ The oil is what brins 9iht or understandin$

"+hile the brideroom tarried, the! all slumbered and slept$ *nd at midniht there was acr! made, 1ehold, the brideroom cometh3 o !e out to meet him$ Then all those irins

arose, and trimmed their lamps$ *nd the foolish said unto the wise, 7ie us !our oil3 for

our lamps are one out$"

The foolish irins were without wisdom or understandin, which is oil for the

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*nd when the! said to the wise "ie us of !our oil," the wise answered sa!in, "2ot so3

lest there be not enouh for us and !ou: but o !e rather to them that sell, and bu! for

!ourseles$"

That means that the foolish irins could not receie more than was in their

consciousness, or what the! were ibratin to$

The man receied the trip because it was in his consciousness, as a realit!$ He belieed

that he had alread! receied$ *s he prepared for the trip he was ta#in oil for his lamps$+ith reali6ation comes manifestation$

The law of preparation wor#s both wa!s$ .f !ou prepare for what !ou fear or don4t want,

!ou bein to attract it$ Daid said, "The thin . feared has come upon me$" +e hearpeople sa!, ". must put awa! mone! in case of illness$" The! are deliberatel! preparin to

be ill$ Or, ".4m sain for a rain! da!$" The rain! da! is sure to come, at a most

inconenient time$

The diine idea for eer! man is plent!$ >our barns should be full, and !our cup should

flow oer, but we must learn to as# ariht$

0or e8ample ta#e this statement: . call on the law of accumulation$ =! suppl! comes

from 7od, and now pours in and piles up, under race$

This statement does not ie an! picture of stint or sain or sic#ness$ .t ies a fourth

dimensional feelin of abundance, leain the channels to .nfinite .ntellience$

Eer! da! !ou must ma#e a choice, will !ou be wise or foolish +ill !ou prepare for

!our ood +ill !ou ta#e the iant swin into faith Or sere doubt and fear and brin no

oil for !our lamps

"*nd while the! went to bu!, the brideroom came3 and the! that were read! went in

with him to the marriae: and the door was shut$ *fterward came also the other irins,sa!in, 9ord, 9ord, open to us$ 1ut he answered and said, eril! . sa! unto !ou, . #now

!ou not$"

>ou ma! feel that the foolish irins paid er! dearl! for nelectin to brin oil for theirlamps, but we are dealin with the law of our ;udement da! comes, the! sa!, in seens%seen hours, seen da!s, seen wee#s,

seen months, or seen !ears$ .t miht een come in seen minutes$ Then !ou pa! some

ou failed to trust 7od, !ou too#no oil for !our lamps$


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Eer! da! e8amine !our consciousness and see ;ust what !ou are preparin for$ >ou are

fearful of lac# and han on to eer! cent, thereb! attractin more lac#$ Use what !ou

hae with wisdom and it opens the wa! for more to come to !ou$

.n m! boo#, ">our +ord .s >our +and," . tell about the =aic -urse$ .n the *rabian

2ihts the! tell the stor! of a man who had a =aic -urse$ *s mone! went out,immediatel! mone! appeared in it aain$

So . made the statement: =! suppl! comes from 7od%. hae the maic purse of thespirit$ .t can neer be depleted$ *s mone! oes out, immediatel! mone! comes in$ .t is

alwa!s crammed, ;ammed with abundance, under race, in perfect wa!s$

This brins a iid picture to mind: >ou are drawin on the ban# of the imaination$

* woman who did not hae much mone! was afraid to pa! an! bills and see her ban#

account dwindle$ .t came to her with reat coniction: ". hae the maic purse of the

spirit$ .t can neer be depleted$ *s mone! oes out, immediatel!, mone! comes in$" Shefearlessl! paid her bills, and seeral lare che/ues came to her that she did not e8pect$

"+atch and pra! lest !e enter into the temptation" of preparin for somethin destructie

instead of somethin constructie$

. #new a woman who told me she alwa!s #ept a lon crepe eil hand! in case of funerals$

. said to her, ">ou are a menace to !our relaties, and are preparin to hurr! them all off,

so that !ou can wear the eil$" She destro!ed it$

*nother woman who had no mone! decided to send her two dauhters to collee$ Her

husband scorned the idea and said, "+ho will pa! their tuition . hae no mone! for it$"

She replied, ". #now some unforeseen ood will come to us$" She #ept on preparin herdauhters for collee$ Her husband lauhed heartil! and told all their friends that his wife

was sendin the irls to collee on "some unforeseen ood$" * rich relatie suddenl! sent

her a lare sum of mone!$ "Some unforeseen ood" did arrie, for she had shown actiefaith$ . as#ed what she had said to her husband when the che/ue arried$ She replied,

"Oh, . neer antaoni6e 7eore b! tellin him . am in the riht$"

So prepare for !our "unforeseen ood$" 9et eer! thouht and eer! act e8press !ourunwaerin faith$ Eer! eent in !our life is a cr!stalli6ed idea$ Somethin !ou hae

inited throuh either fear or faith$ Somethin !ou hae prepared for$

So let us be wise and brin oil for our lamps%and when we least e8pect it, we shall reap

the fruits of our faith$

=! lamps are now filled with the oil of faith and fulfillment$


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+H*T DO >OU E-ECT

*ccordin to !our faith be it unto !ou$%=att$ I:(I

0aith is e8pectanc!, "*ccordin to !our faith, be it unto !ou$"

+e miht sa!, accordin to !our e8pectancies be it done unto !ou3 so, what are !ou

e8pectin

+e hear people sa!: "+e e8pect the worst to happen," or "The worst is !et to come$"

The! are deliberatel! initin the worst to come$

+e hear others sa!: ". e8pect a chane for the better$" The! are initin better conditionsinto their lies$

Chane !our e8pectancies and !ou chane !our conditions$

How can !ou chane !our e8pectancies, when !ou hae formed the habit of e8pectin

loss, lac# or failure

1ein to act as if !ou e8pected success, happiness and abundance3 prepare for !our ood$

Do somethin to show !ou e8pect it to come$ *ctie faith alone, will impress the

subconscious$

.f !ou hae spo#en the word for a home, prepare for it immediatel!, as if !ou hadn4t amoment to lose$ Collect little ornaments, tablecloths, etc$ etc$5

. #new a woman who made the iant swin into faith, b! bu!in a lare armchair3 achair meant business, she bouht a lare and comfortable chair, for she was preparin for

the riht man$ He came$

Someone will sa!, "Suppose !ou haen4t mone! to bu! ornaments or a chair" Then loo#

in shop windows and lin# with them in thouht$

7et in their ibration: . sometimes hear people sa!3 ". don4t o into the shops because .can4t afford to bu! an!thin$" That is ;ust the reason !ou should o into the shops$ 1ein

to ma#e friends with the thins !ou desire or re/uire$

. #now a woman who wanted a rin$ She went boldl! to the rin department and tried on

rins$

.t ae her such a reali6ation of ownership, that not lon after, a friend made her a ift of

a rin$ ">ou combine with what !ou notice$"


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">ou4re hedin," he said, ">ou don4t #now, and !ou4re tr!in to coer up b! pretendin

to #now more than !ou4re willin to sa!$ >ou haen4t an! more idea than . hae this

minute what sort of pla!s enerall! succeed$"

". hae," . said, "there is one sure fire success3 one theme that wor#s and has alwa!s

wor#ed, whether it is competin with bo! meets irl, m!steries, historical traedies, etc$3no pla! on the theme has eer completel! failed if it had an! merit at all, and a lot of poor

ones hae been bi hits$"

">ou4re stallin aain," said =r$ -emberton, "+hat sort of pla!s are the!"

"=etaph!sical," . said, foulin slihtl! with a bi word and waitin /uietl! for the effect$

"=etaph!sical," said =r$ -emberton, ">ou mean metaph!sical"

. paused a moment and since =r$ -emberton said nothin, went riht on spoutin such

titles as "The 7reen -astures," "The Star +aon," "0ather =alach!4s =iracle5, etc$"

"Some of these," . added, "reached the public oer the heads of the critics$" 1ut =r$-emberton had departed to as# probabl!, in eer! theatre in town, ".s there a

metaph!sician in the house"

-eople are beinnin to reali6e the power of their words and thouhts$ The! understand

wh! "0aith is the substance of the thin hoped for, the eidence of thins not seen$"

+e see the law of e8pectanc! wor#in out throuh superstition$

.f !ou wal# under a ladder and e8pect it to ie !ou bad luc#, it will ie !ou bad luc#$The ladder is /uite innocent3 bad luc# came because !ou e8pected it$

+e miht sa!, e8pectanc! is the substance of the thins hoped for3 or e8pectanc! is thesubstance of the thin man fears3 "The thin . e8pected has come upon me$"

2othin as too ood to be true, nothin is too wonderful to happen, nothin is too ood tolast3 when !ou loo# to 7od for !our ood$

2ow thin# of the blessins which seem so far off, and bein to e8pect them now, under

race, in an une8pected wa!3 for 7od wor#s in une8pected wa!s, His wonders toperform$

. was told that there are three thousand promises in the 1ible$

9et us now e8pect all these blessins to come to pass$ *mon them we are promised

Riches and Honor, Eternal >outh ">our flesh shall become as a little child4s and Eternal9ife, "death itself shall be oercome$"

Christianit! as founded upon the forieness of sins and an empt! tomb$


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+e now #now that all these thins are scientificall! possible$

*s we call on the law of forieness, we become free from mista#es and theconse/uences of mista#es$ "Thouh !our sins be as scarlet !e shall be washed whiter

than wool$"

Then our bodies will be bathed in 9iht, and e8press the "bod! electric," which is

incorruptible and indestructible, pure substance, e8pressin perfection$

. e8pect the une8pected, m! lorious ood now comes to pass$

THE 9O27 *R= O0 7OD

"The Eternal 7od is th! refue, and underneath are the eerlastin arms$"%Deut$ FF:(K

.n the bible, the arm of 7od alwa!s s!mboli6es protection$ The writers of the bible #new

the power of a s!mbol$ .t brins a picture which impresses the subconscious mind$ The!

used the s!mbols of the roc#, sheep, shepherds, ine!ard, lamp, and hundreds of others$ .twould be interestin to #now how man! s!mbols are used in the bible$ The arm also

s!mboli6es strenth$

"The eternal 7od is th! refue, and underneath are the eerlastin arms: and he shall

thrust out the enem! from before thee3 and shall sa!, Destro! them$"

+ho is the enem! "before thee$" The neatie thouhtforms which !ou hae built up in

!our subconscious mind$ * man4s enemies are onl! those of his own household$ The

eerlastin arms thrust out these enem! thouhts and destro! them$

Hae !ou eer felt the relief of ettin out some neatie thouhtform -erhaps !ou

hae built up a thouhtform of resentment, until !ou are alwa!s boilin with aner about

somethin$ >ou resent people !ou #now, people !ou don4t #now%people in the past andpeople in the present3 and !ou ma! be sure that the people in the future won4t escape !our

wrath$

*ll the orans of the bod! are affected b! resentment%for when !ou resent, !ou resent

with eer! oran of the bod!$ >ou pa! the penalt! with rheumatism, arthritis, neuritis,

etc$, for acid thouhts produce acid in the blood$ *ll this trouble comes because !ou are

fihtin the battle, not leain it to the lon arm of 7od$


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. hae ien the followin statement to man! of m! students$ The lon arm of 7od

reaches out oer people and conditions, controllin this situation and protectin m!interests$

This brins a picture of a lon arm s!mboli6in strenth and protection$ +ith thereali6ation of the power of the lon arm of 7od, !ou would no loner resist or resent$

>ou would rela8 and let o$ The enem! thouhts within !ou would be destro!ed,

therefore, the aderse conditions would disappear$

Spiritual deelopment means the abilit! to stand still, or stand aside, and let .nfinite

.ntellience lift !our burdens and fiht !our battles$ +hen the burden of resentment is

lifted, !ou e8perience a sense of relief5 >ou hae a #indl! feelin for eer!one, and allthe orans of !our bod! bein to function properl!$

* clippin /uotin *lbert Edward Da!, D$D$ reads, "That loin our enemies is ood for

our spiritual health is widel! #nown and accepted$ 1ut that neation and poisonousemotions destro! ph!sical health, is a relatiel! new discoer!$ The problem of health is

often an emotional one$ +ron emotions entertained and repeated are potent causes ofillness$ +hen the preacher tal#s about loin !our enemies, the man on the street is apt to

dismiss the idea as unendurable and pious$ 1ut the fact is, the preacher is tellin !ou

somethin which is one of the first laws of h!iene, as well as ethics$ 2o man een forhis bod!4s sa#e can afford to indule in hatred$ .t is li#e repeated doses of poison$ +hen

!ou are ured to et rid of fear, !ou are not listenin to a moonstruc# idealist3 rather !ou

are hearin counsel that is as sinificant for health as adice about diet$"

+e hear so much about a balanced diet, but without a balanced mind !ou can4t diest

what !ou eat, calories or no calories$

2onresistance is an art$ +hen ac/uired, The +orld is >ours5 So man! people are tr!in

to force situations$ >our lastin ood will neer come throuh forcin personal will$

"0lee from the thins which flee from thee,

See# nothin, fortune see#eth thee$

1ehold his shadow on the floor5

1ehold him standin at the door5"

. do not #now the author of these lines$ 9oeloc#, the celebrated Enlish athlete, wasas#ed how to attain his speed and endurance in runnin$ He replied, "9earn to rela8$" 9et

us attain this rest in action$ He was most rela8ed when runnin the fastest$

>our bi opportunit! and bi success usuall! slide in, when !ou least e8pect it$ >ou hae

to let o lon enouh for the reat law of attraction to operate$ >ou neer saw a worried

and an8ious manet$ .t stands up straiht and hasn4t a care in the world, because it #nows


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the needles can4t help ;umpin to it$ The thins we rihtl! desire come to pass when we

hae ta#en the clutch off$

. sa! in m! correspondence course, "Do not let !our heart4s desire become a heart4s

disease$" >ou are completel! demaneti6ed when !ou desire somethin too intensel!$

>ou worr!, fear, and aoni6e$ There is an occult law of indifference: "2one of thesethins moe me$" >our ships come in oer a don4t care sea$

=an! people in Truth antaoni6e friends, because the! are too an8ious for them to readthe boo#s and o to the lectures$ The! meet opposition$

* friend too# m! boo#, "The 7ame of 9ife and How to -la! .t" to her brother4s house to

read$ The !oun men of the famil! refused to read it$ 2o "nut stuff" for them$ One ofthese !oun men dries a ta8i cab$ One niht he droe a ta8i which beloned to another

man$ .n oin oer the car he found a boo# stuffed awa! somewhere$ .t was "The 7ame

of 9ife and How to -la! .t$" The ne8t da! he said to his aunt, ". found =rs$ Shinn4s boo#

in the ta8i last niht$ . read it and it4s reat5 There4s a lot of ood readin in it$ +h!doesn4t she write another boo#" 7od wor#s in roundabout wa!s, His wonders to

perform$

. meet unhapp! people and a few rateful and contented people$ * man said to me one

da!, ". hae a reat deal to be than#ful for$ . hae ood health, enouh mone! and .4mstill sinle5"

The eiht!ninth psalm is er! interestin, for we find that two indiiduals ta#e part3 the

man who sins the psalm for all psalms are sons or poems, and the 9ord 7od of Hostsanswers him$ .t is a son of praise and than#siin, e8tollin the stron arm of 7od$

". will sin of the mercies of the 9ord foreer5"

"O 9ord 7od of Hosts, who is a stron 9ord li#e unto thee"

"Thou hast a miht! arm: stron is th! hand, and hih is th! riht hand$"

Then the 9ord of Hosts replies$

"+ith whom m! hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strenthen him$"

"=! merc! will . #eep for him for eermore, and m! coenant shall stand fast with him$"

+e onl! hear the words "for eermore" in the bible and in fair!tales$ .n the absolute,

man is outside of time and space$ His ood is "from eerlastin to eerlastin$" The fair!tales came down from the old -ersian leends which were founded upon Truth$

*laddin and His +onderful 9amp is the outpicturin of the +ord$ *laddin rubbed the

lamp and all his desires came to pass$ >our word is !our lamp$ +ords and thouhts are a


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form of radio actiit! and do not return oid$ * scientist has said that words are clothed

in liht$ >ou are continuall! reapin the fruits of !our words$

* friend in one of m! meetin said that she had brouht a man to m! class who had been

out of wor# for a !ear or more$ . ae the statement: 2ow is the appointed time$ Toda! is

the da! of m! ama6in ood fortune$ .t clic#ed in his consciousness$ Soon after, he wasien a position which paid him nine thousand dollars a !ear$

* woman told me that when . blessed the offerin . said that each offerin would return athousandfold$ She had put a dollar in the collection$ She said with reat reali6ation, "That

dollar is blessed and returns a thousand dollars$" She receied a thousand dollars a short

time afterwards, in a most une8pected wa!$

+h! do some people demonstrate this Truth so much more /uic#l! than others .t is

because the! hae the ears that hear$ &esus Christ tells the parable of the man who sowed

the seed and it fell upon ood round$ The seed is the word$ . sa!, "9isten for the

statement that clic#s3 the statement that ies !ou reali6ation$ That statement will bearfruit$"

The other da! . went into a shop where . #now the emplo!er /uite well$ . had ien one

of his emplo!ees an affirmation card$ . said to him, ;o#inl!, ". wouldn4t waste an

affirmation card on !ou$ >ou wouldn4t use it$" He replied, "Oh, sure, ie me one$ .4ll useit$" The followin wee# . ae him a card$ 1efore . left he rushed up to me e8citedl! and

said, ". made that statement and two new customers wal#ed in$" .t was: "2ow is the

appointed time3 toda! is the da! of m! ama6in ood fortune$" .t had clic#ed$

So man! people use their words in e8aerated and rec#less statements$ . find a reat

deal of material for m! tal#s in the beaut! parlor$ * !oun irl wanted a maa6ine to

read$ She called to the operator, "7ie me somethin terribl! new and frihtfull!e8citin$" *ll she wanted was the latest moin picture maa6ine$ >ou hear people sa!,

". wish somethin terribl! e8citin would happen$" The! are initin some unhapp!, but

e8citin, e8perience into their lies$ Then the! wonder wh! it happened to them$

There should be a chair of metaph!sics in all collees$ =etaph!sics is the wisdom of the

aes$ .t is the ancient wisdom tauht all throuh the centuries in .ndia and E!pt and

7reece$ Hermes Trismeistus was a reat teacher of E!pt$ His teachins were closel!uarded and hae come down to us oer ten centuries$ He lied in E!pt in the da!s

when the present race of men was in its infanc!$ 1ut if !ou read the "


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THE 0OR< .2 THE RO*D

"Choose !ou this da! whom !e will sere$"%&osh$ (G:A@$

Eer! da! there is a necessit! of choice a for# in the road$

"Shall . do this, or shall . do that Shall . o, or shall . sta!" =an! people do not #now

what to do$ The! rush about lettin other people ma#e decisions for them, then reret

hain ta#en their adice$

There are others who carefull! reason thins out$ The! weih and measure the situation

li#e dealin in roceries, and are surprised when the! fail to attain their oal$

There are still other people who follow the maic path of intuition and find themseles in

their -romised 9and in the twin#lin of an e!e$

.ntuition is a spiritual facult! hih aboe the reasonin mind, but on that path is all that!ou desire or re/uire$

.n m! boo# "The 7ame of 9ife and How to -la! .t," . ie man! e8amples of success

attained throuh usin this marelous facult!$ . sa! also that pra!er is telephonin to 7od

and intuition is 7od telephonin to !ou$ Correspondence Course$

So choose !e this da! to follow the maic path of intuition$

.n m! /uestion and answer classes . tell !ou how to cultiate intuition$

.n most people it is a facult! which has remained dormant$ So we sa!, "*wa#e thou that

sleepeth$ +a#e up to !our leads and hunches$ +a#e up to the diinit! within5"

Claude 1radon said, "To lie intuitiel! is to lie fourth dimensionall!$"

2ow it is necessar! for !ou to ma#e a decision, !ou face a for# in the road$ *s# for a

definite unmista#able lead, and !ou will receie it$

+e find man! eents to interpret metaph!sicall! in the 1oo# of &oshua$ "*fter the deathof =oses, the diine command came to &oshua, 42ow therefore, arise, o oer the &ordan,

thou and all th! people, unto the land which . do ie to them$ Eer! place the sole of

!our feet shall tread upon3 to !ou hae . ien it4$"

The feet are the s!mbol of understandin, so it means metaph!sicall! all that we

understand stands under us in consciousness, and what is rooted there can neer be ta#enfrom us$

0or, the bible oes on to sa!: "There shall not an! man be able to stand before thee all the

da!s of th! life$ $ $ $ . will not fail thee, nor forsa#e thee$ Onl! be thou stron and er!


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couraeous, that thou ma!est obsere to do accordin to all the law, which =oses m!

serant commanded thee: turn not from it to the riht hand or to the left, that thou ma!est

prosper whithersoeer thou oest$"

So we find we hae success throuh bein stron and er! couraeous in followin

spiritual law$ +e are bac# aain to the "for# in the road"%the necessit! of choice$

"Choose !ou this da! whom !e will sere," the intellect or diine uidance$

* well#nown man, who has become a reat power in the financial world, said to a

friend, ". alwa!s follow intuition and . am luc# incarnate$"

.nspiration which is diine uidance is the most important thin in life$ -eople come toTruth meetins for inspiration$ . find the riht word will start diine actiit! operatin in

their affairs$

* woman came to me with a complication of affairs$ . said to her, "9et 7od ;ule thesituation$" .t clic#ed$ She too# the affirmation, ". now let 7od ;ule this situation$"

*lmost immediatel! she rented a house, which had been acant for a lon time$

9et 7od ;ule eer! situation, for when !ou tr! to ;ule the situation, !ou drop all the

balls$

.n m! /uestion and answer classes, . would be as#ed, "How do !ou let 7od ;ule a

situation, and what do !ou mean when !ou sa! . should not ;ule it"

>ou ;ule with the intellect$ The intellect would sa!, "Times are hard, no actiit! in real

estate$ Don4t e8pect an!thin until the 0all of AI@B$"

+ith spiritual law there is onl! the now$ 1efore !ou call !ou are answered, for "time and

space are but a dream," and !our blessin is there waitin for !ou to release it b! faith

and the word$

"Choose !ou this da! whom !e will sere," fear or faith$

.n eer! act prompted b! fear lies the erm of its own defeat$

.t ta#es much strenth and courae to trust 7od$ +e often trust him in little thins, but

when it comes to a bi situation we feel we had better attend to it ourseles3 then comesdefeat and failure$

The followin e8tract from a letter which . receied from a woman in the +est showshow conditions can chane in the twin#lin of an e!e$

".4e had the pleasure of readin !our wonderful boo#, The 7ame of 9ife and How to

-la! .t$4 . hae four bo!s, ten, thirteen, fifteen and seenteen, and thouht how wonderful


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for them to rasp it, in their earl! life, and be able to et thins which are theirs b! Diine

Riht$

"The lad! who let me read her cop! ae me other thins to read, but it seemed when .

pic#ed this boo# up it was manetic and . could not let o of it$ *fter readin it . reali6ed,

. was tr!in to lie Diinel! but did not understand the law, or . would hae been muchfurther adanced$

"*t first . thouht it /uite hard to find a place in the business world, after so man! !earsof bein a mother$ 1ut . ot this statement, 47od ma#es a wa! where there is no wa!$4

*nd He did that er! thin for me$

". am rateful for m! position, and smile when people sa!, 4How do !ou do it, manaefour rowin bo!s, a home, after all the times !ou hae been hospitali6ed with such

ma;or operations, and none of !our relaties near !ou4 "

. hae that statement in m! boo#, "7od ma#es a wa! where there is no wa!$"

7od made a wa! for her in business when all her friends said it couldn4t be done$

The aerae person will tell !ou almost an!thin can4t be done$

. had an e8ample of this the other da!$ .n a shop . found a delihtful little siler

dripolator which would ma#e ;ust one cup of an!thin$ . showed it to some friends with

enthusiasm, thin#in it so er! cute, and one said, ".t will neer wor#$" The other said,

".f it beloned to me, .4d throw it awa!$" . stood up for the little dripolator and said .#new it would wor#, which it did$

=! friends were simpl! t!pical of the aerae person who sa!s, ".t can4t be done$"

*ll bi ideas meet with opposition$

Do not let other people roc# !our boat$

0ollow the path of wisdom and understandin, "and turn not from it to the riht hand or

to the left, that thou ma!est prosper whithersoeer thou oest$"

.n the thirteenth erse of the twent!fourth chapter of &oshua, we read a remar#able

statement: "*nd . hae ien !ou a land for which !e did not labour, and cities which !ebuilt not, and !e dwell in them3 of the ine!ards and olie!ards which !e planted not, do

!e eat$"

This shows that man cannot earn an!thin, his blessins come as ifts$ 7ifts lest an!

man shall boast$

+ith the reali6ation of wealth, we receie the ift of wealth$


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+ith the reali6ation of success, we receie the ift of success, for success and abundance

are states of mind$

"0or it is the 9ord our 7od, he it is, that brouht us up, and our fathers out of the land of

E!pt, out of the house of bondae$"

The land of E!pt stands for dar#ness%the house of bondae, where man is a slae to his

doubts and fears, and beliefs in lac# and limitation, the result of hain followed thewron for# in the road$

=isfortune is due to failure to stic# to the thins which spirit has reealed throuh

intuition$

*ll bi thins hae been accomplished b! men who stuc# to their bi ideas$

Henr! 0ord was past middle ae when the idea of the 0ord car came to him$ He had reatdifficult! in raisin the mone!$ His friends thouht it was a cra6! idea$ His father said to

him, tearfull!, "Henr!, wh! do !ou ie up a ood twent!fie dollar a wee# ;ob in orderto chase a cra6! idea" 1ut no one could roc# Henr! 0ord4s boat$

So in order to come out of the land of E!pt, out of the house of bondae, we must ma#ethe riht decisions$

0ollow the riht for# in the road$ "Onl! be thou stron and er! couraeous, that thou

ma!est obsere to do accordin to the law, which =oses m! serant commanded thee:turn not from it to the riht hand nor to the left, that thou ma!est prosper whithersoeer

thou oest$"

So, as we reach the for# in the road toda!, let us fearlessl! follow the oice of intuition$

The bible calls it "the still small oice$"

"There came a oice behind me, sa!in, 4This is the wa!, wal# !e in it4$"

On this path is the ood, alread! prepared for !ou$

>ou will find the "land for which !e did not labour, and cities which !e built not, and !e

dwell in them3 of the ine!ards and olie!ards which !e planted not, do !e eat$"

. am diinel! led, . follow the riht for# in the road$ 7od ma#es a wa! where there is no

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"*nd the children of .srael went into the midst of the sea upon the dr! round: and the

waters were a wall unto them on their riht hand, and on their left$"

"*nd the E!ptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, een all

-haraoh4s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen$

"*nd the 9ord said unto =oses, Stretch out thine hand oer the sea, that the waters ma!

come aain upon the E!ptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen$"

"*nd =oses stretched forth his hand oer the sea, and the sea returned3 and the E!ptians

fled aainst it3 and the 9ord oerthrew the E!ptians in the midst of the sea$"

"*nd the waters returned, and coered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the hosts of-haraoh that came into the sea after them3 there remained not so much as one of them$"

2ow remember, the bible is tal#in about the indiidual$ .t is tal#in about !our

wilderness, !our Red Sea, and !our -romised 9and$

Each one of !ou has a -romised 9and, a heart4s desire, but !ou hae been so enslaed b!the E!ptians !our neatie thouhts, it seems er! far awa!, and too ood to be true$

>ou consider trustin 7od a er! ris#! proposition$ The wilderness miht proe worse

than the E!ptians$

*nd how do !ou #now !our -romised 9and reall! e8ists

The reasonin mind will alwa!s bac# up the E!ptians$

1ut sooner or later, somethin sa!s, "7o forward5" .t is usuall! circumstances%!ou are

drien to it$

. ie the e8ample of a student$

She is a er! marelous pianist and had reat success abroad$ She came bac# with a boo#

full of press clippins, and a happ! heart$

* relatie too# an interest in her and said she would bac# her financiall! for a concerttour$ The! chose a manaer who too# chare of the e8penses, and attended to her

boo#ins$

*fter a concert or two, there were no more funds$ The manaer had ta#en them$ =!

friend was left stranded, desolate and disappointed$ This was about the time that she came

to me$

She hated the man, and it was ma#in her ill$ She had er! little mone! and could afford

onl! a cheerless room where her hands were often too cold to practice$


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She was indeed, in bondae to the E!ptians%hate, resentment, lac# and limitation$

Someone brouht her to one of m! meetins, and she spo#e to me and told her stor!$

. said, ".n the first place !ou must stop hatin that man$ +hen !ou are able to forie

him, !our success will come bac# to !ou$ >ou are ta#in !our initiation in forieness$"

.t seemed a prett! bi order, but she tried and came reularl! to all m! meetins$

.n the meantime, the relatie had started a suit to recoer the mone!$ Time went on and it

neer came to court$

=! friend had a call to o to California$ She was no loner disturbed b! the situation, andhad forien the man$

Suddenl!, after about four !ears, she was notified that the case had come to court$ She

called me upon her arrial in 2ew >or#, and as#ed me to spea# the word for rihtnessand ;ustice$

The! went at the time appointed, and it was all settled out of court, the man restorin the

mone! b! monthl! pa!ments$

She came to me oerflowin with ;o!, for she said, ". hadn4t the least resentment toward

the man$ He was ama6ed when . reeted him cordiall!$" Her relatie said that all the

mone! was to o to her, so she found herself with a bi ban# account$

2ow she will soon reach her -romised 9and$ She came out of the house of bondae of

hate and resentment and crossed her red sea$ Her oodwill toward the man caused the

waters to part, and she crossed oer on dr! land$

Dr! land s!mboli6es somethin substantial under !our feet, the feet s!mboli6in

understandin$

=oses stands out as one of the reatest fiures in biblical histor!$

".t came to =oses to moe from E!pt with his nation$ The tas# before him was not onl!the unwillinness of -haraoh to let o of those whom he had made into profitable slaes,

but also to stimulate to open rebellion this nation which had lost its initiatie under the

hardships of its tas#masters$"

".t re/uired e8traordinar! enius to meet this condition, which =oses possessed with self

abneation and the courae of his own conictions$ Self abneation5 He was called themee#est of men$ +e hae often heard the e8pression, 4*s mee# as =oses$4 He was so

mee# towards the commands of the 9ord, that he became one of the stronest of men$"


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The 9ord said to =oses, "lift thou up th! rod, and stretch out thine hand oer the sea, and

diide it: and the children of .srael shall o on dr! round throuh the midst of the sea$"

So, neer doubtin, he said to the children of .srael, "7o forward$" This was a darin

thin to do, to lead a multitude of people into the sea, hain perfect faith the! would not

drown$

1ehold the miracle5

"$ $ $ the 9ord caused the sea to o bac# b! a stron east wind all that niht, and made the

sea dr! land, and the waters were diided$"

2ow remember, this could happen for !ou this er! da!$ Thin# of !our problem$

=a!be !ou hae lost !our initiatie from liin so lon a slae to -haraoh%!our

doubts, fears and discouraements$

Sa! to !ourself, "7o forward$"

"$ $ $ the 9ord caused the sea to o bac# b! a stron east wind$"

+e will thin# of this stron east wind as a stron affirmation$

Ta#e a ital statement of Truth$ 0or e8ample, if !our problem is a financial one, sa!: "=!

suppl! comes from 7od, and bi happ! financial surprises now come to me, under race,

in perfect wa!s$" The statement is a ood one, for it contains the element of m!ster!$

+e are told that 7od wor#s in m!sterious wa!s His wonders to perform$ +e miht sa! in

surprisin wa!s$ 2ow that !ou hae made !our statement for suppl!, !ou hae caused theeast wind to blow$

So wal# up to !our Red Sea of lac# or limitation$ The wa! to wal# up to !our Red Sea isto do somethin to show !our fearlessness$

. will tell the stor! of a student who had an initation to isit friends at a er! fashionable

summer resort$

She had been liin in the countr! for a lon time, rown heaier, and nothin fitted her

but her irl scout suit$ Suddenl!, she receied the initation$ .t meant eenin clothes,slippers and accessories, none of which she had, and no mone! to bu! them$ She came to

me$ . said, "+hat is !our hunch"

She replied, ". feel er! fearless$ . hae the hunch to o, an!wa!$"

So she s/uee6ed herself into somethin to trael in, and went$


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+hen she arried at her friend4s house she was reeted warml!, but her hostess said, with

some embarrassment, "=a!be what .4e done will hurt !ou, but there are some eenin

clothes and slippers . neer wear which . hae put in !our room$ +on4t !ou ma#e use ofthem"

=! friend assured her she would be delihted%and eer!thin fitted perfectl!$

She had, indeed, wal#ed up to her Red Sea and passed oer on dr! land$

The waters of m! Red Sea part, and . pass oer on dr! land, . now o forward into m!

-romised 9and$

THE +*TCH=*2 *T THE 7*TE

"*lso . set watchmen oer !ou, sa!in, Hear#en to the sound of the trumpet$"%&eremiah':AK

+e must all hae a watchman at the ate of our thouhts$ The +atchman at the 7ate isthe superconscious mind$

+e hae the power to choose our thouhts$

Since we hae lied in the race thouht for thousands of !ears, it seems almost

impossible to control them$ The! rush throuh our minds li#e stampedin cattle or sheep$

1ut a sinle sheepdo can control the frihtened sheep and uide them into the sheep

pen$

. saw a picture in the newsreels of a shepherddo controllin the sheep$ He had rounded

up all but three$ These three resisted and resented$ The! baahed and lifted their front feet

in protest, but the do simpl! sat down in front and neer too# his e!es off them$ He didnot bar# or threaten$ He ;ust sat and loo#ed his determination$ .n a little while the sheep

tossed their heads and went in the pen$

+e can learn to control our thouhts in the same wa!, b! entle determination, not force$

+e ta#e an affirmation and repeat it continuall!, while our thouhts are on the rampae$


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The! encounter terrible e8periences, for the bad witch is determined to capture Doroth!

and ta#e awa! Toto and the rub! slippers which protect her$

*t last the! reach the Emerald -alace of the +i6ard of O6$

The! as# for an audience, but are told no one has eer seen the +i6ard of O6, who liesm!steriousl! in the palace$

1ut throuh the influence of the ood witch of the 2orth, the! enter the palace$ Therethe! discoer that the +i6ard is ;ust a fa#e maician from Doroth!4s home town in

ou will form the habit of iin attention to eer! thouht and word, when !ou reali6e

their importance$


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The imaination, the scissors of the mind, is constantl! cuttin out the eents to come

into !our life$

=an! people are cuttin out fearpictures$ Seein thins which are not diinel! planned$

+ith the "sinle e!e," man sees onl! the Truth$ He sees throuh eil, #nowin that out ofit comes ood$ He transmutes in;ustice into ;ustice, and disarms his seemin enem! b!

sendin oodwill$

+e read in m!tholo! of the C!clops, a race of iants, said to hae inhabited Sicil!$

These iants had onl! one e!e in the middle of the forehead$

The seat of the imainin facult! is situated in the forehead between the e!es$ So thesefabled iants came from this idea$

>ou are indeed a iant when !ou hae a sinle e!e$ Then eer! thouht will be a

constructie thouht, and eer! word, a word of -ower$

9et the third e!e be the watchman at the ate$

".f therefore thine e!e be sinle, th! whole bod! is full of liht$"

+ith the sinle e!e !our bod! will be transformed into !our spiritual bod!, the "bod!

electric" made in 7od4s li#eness and imae imaination$

1! seein clearl! the perfect plan, we could redeem the world: with our inner e!e seeina world of peace and plent! and ood will$

"&ude not b! appearances, ;ude rihteous ;udment$"

"2ation shall not lift up sword aainst nation, neither shall the! learn war an!more$"

The occult law of indifference means that !ou are undisturbed b! aderse appearances$

>ou hold steadil! to the constructie thouht, which wins out$

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"0or there shall be a da! that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cr!, *rise !e,

and let us o up to Lion unto the 9ord our 7od$"

The +atchman at the 7ate neither slumbers nor sleeps$ .t is the "e!e which watches oer

.srael$"

1ut the indiidual, liin in a world of neatie thouht, is not conscious of this inner

e!e$

He ma! occasionall! hae flashes of intuition or illumination, then falls bac# into a world

of chaos$

.t ta#es determination and eternal iilance to chec# up on words and thouhts$ Thouhtsof fear, failure, resentment and illwill must be dissoled and dissipated$

Ta#e the statement: "Eer! plant m! father in heaen has not planted shall be rooted up$"

This ies !ou a iid picture of rootin up weeds in a arden$ The! are thrown aside,

and dr! up because the! are without soil to nourish them$

>ou nourish neatie thouhts b! iin them !our attention$ Use the occult law of

indifference and refuse to be interested$

Soon !ou will stare out the "arm! of the aliens$" Diine ideas will crowd !our

consciousness, false ideas fade awa!, and !ou will desire onl! that which 7od desires

throuh !ou$

The Chinese hae a proerb, "The -hilosopher leaes the cut of his coat to the tailor$"

So leae the plan of !our life to the Diine Desiner, and !ou will find all conditions

permanentl! perfect$

The round . am on is hol! round$ . now e8pand rapidl! into the diine plan of m! life,

where all conditions are permanentl! perfect$


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THE +*> O0 *1U2D*2CE

"Then shalt thou la! up old as dust$"%&ob ((:(G

The wa! of abundance is a onewa! street$

*s the old sa!in is, "there are no two wa!s about it$"

>ou are either headin for lac#, or headin for abundance$ The man with a richconsciousness and the man with a poor consciousness are not wal#in on the same mental

street$

There is a laish suppl!, diinel! planned for each indiidual$

The rich man is tappin it, for rich thouhts produce rich surroundins$

Chane !our thouhts, and in the twin#lin of an e!e, all !our conditions chane$ >ourworld is a world of cr!stalli6ed ideas, cr!stalli6ed words$

Sooner or later, !ou reap the fruits of !our words and thouhts$

"+ords are bodies or forces which moe spirall! and return in due season to cross thelies of their creators$" -eople who are alwa!s tal#in lac# and limitation, reap lac# and

limitation$

>ou cannot enter the


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Her old friends scarcel! reconi6ed her$ She had swun into the wa! of abundance$ =ore

mone! came to her than she had eer had before$ Unheardof doors opened%ama6in

channels were freed$ She became er! successful in a wor# she had had no trainin for$

She found herself on miracle round$ +hat had happened

She had chaned the /ualit! of her words and thouhts$ She had ta#en 7od into her

confidence, and into all her affairs$ She had man! eleenthhour demonstrations, but her

suppl! alwa!s came, for she du her ditches and ae than#s without waerin$

Someone called me up recentl! and said, ". am loo#in desperatel! for a position$"

. replied, "Don4t loo# desperatel! for it, loo# for it with praise and than#siin, for &esusChrist, the reatest of metaph!sicians, said to pra! with praise and than#siin$"

-raise and than#siin open the ates, for e8pectanc! alwa!s wins$

Of course, the law is impersonal, and a dishonest person with rich thouhts will attract

riches%but, "a thin illot has eer bad success," as Sha#espeare sa!s$ .t will be of shortduration and will not brin happiness$

+e hae onl! to read the papers to see that the wa! of the transressor is hard$

That is the reason it is so necessar! to ma#e !our demands ariht on the Uniersal

Suppl!, and as# for what is !ours b! diine riht and under race in a perfect wa!$

Some people attract prosperit!, but cannot hold it$ Sometimes their heads are turned,

sometimes the! lose it throuh fear and worr!$

* friend in one of m! /uestion and answer classes told this stor!$

Some people in his home town, who had alwa!s been poor, suddenl! struc# oil in theirbac# !ard$ .t brouht reat riches$ The father ;oined the countr! club and went in for olf$

He was no loner !oun%the e8ercise was too much for him and he dropped dead on the

lin#s$

This filled the whole famil! with fear$ The! all decided the! miht hae heart trouble, so

the! are now in bed with trained nurses watchin eer! heart beat$

.n the racethouht people must worr! about somethin$

The! no loner worried about mone!, so the! shifted their worries to health$

The old idea was, "that !ou can4t hae eer!thin$" .f !ou ot one thin, !ou4d lose

another$ -eople were alwa!s sa!in, ">our luc# won4t last," ".t4s too ood to be true$"


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&esus Christ said, ".n the world world thouht there is tribulation, but be of ood cheer,

. hae oercome the world thouht$"

.n the superconscious or Christ within, there is a laish suppl! for eer! demand, and

!our ood is perfect and permanent$

".f thou return to the *lmiht!, thou shalt be built up in consciousness, thou shalt put

awa! ini/uit! far from th! tabernacles$"

"Then shalt thou la! up old as dust, the old of Ophir as the stones of the broo#s$"

">ea, the *lmiht! shall be th! defense and thou shalt hae plent! of siler$"

+hat a picture of opulence5 The result of "Returnin to the *lmiht! in

consciousness$"

+ith the aerae person who has thouht in terms of lac# for a lon time it is er!difficult to build up a rich consciousness$

. hae a student who has attracted reat success b! ma#in the statement: ". am the

dauhter of the


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.t is interestin to compare the translation of the 0rench and Enlish 1ibles$ .n the (Ast

erse of the ((nd chapter of &ob we read: "*c/uaint now th!self with him, and be atpeace: thereb! ood shall come unto thee$" .n the 0rench 1ible we read: "*ttach th!self

to 7od and !ou will hae peace$ Thou shalt thus en;o! happiness$"

The (Frd erse: ".f thou return to the *lmiht!, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put

awa! ini/uit! far from th! tabernacles$" .n the 0rench translation we read: "Thou shalt be

reestablished if thou returnest to the *lmiht!, puttin ini/uit! far off from !ourdwellins$"

.n the (Gth erse we read a new and ama6in translation$ The Enlish 1ible reads: "Then

shalt thou la! up old as dust, and the old of Ophir as the stones of the broo#s$" The0rench 1ible sa!s: "Throw old into the dust, the old of Ophir amonst the pebbles of

the torrents3 and the *lmiht! shall be th! old, th! siler, th! riches$"

This means if people are dependin entirel! on their isible suppl!, it is een better tothrow it awa! and trust absolutel! to the *lmiht! for old, siler and riches$

. ie an e8ample in the stor! told me b! a friend$

* priest went to isit a nunner! in 0rance, where the! fed man! children$ One of thenuns, in despair, told the priest the! had no food3 the children must o hunr!$ She said

that the! had but one piece of siler about the alue of a /uarter of a dollar$ The!

needed food and clothin$

The priest said, "7ie me the coin$"

She handed it to him and he threw it out the window$

"2ow," he said, "rel! entirel! upon 7od$" +ithin a short time friends arried with plent!

of food and ifts of mone!$

This does not mean to throw awa! what mone! !ou hae, but don4t depend upon it$

Depend upon !our inisible suppl!, the 1an# of the .maination$

9et us now attach ourseles to 7od and hae peace$ 0or He shall be our old, our siler

and our riches$

The inspiration of the *lmiht! shall be m! defense and . shall hae plent! of siler$


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. SH*99 2EER +*2T

"The 9ord is m! Shepherd3 . shall not want$" -salms (F:A

The (Frd -salm is the best #nown of all the -salms%we miht sa! that it is the #e!note

to the messae of the 1ible$

.t tells man he shall neer want, when he has the reali6ation or coniction that the 9ord

is his Shepherd: the reali6ation that .nfinite .ntellience supplies eer! need$

.f !ou et this coniction toda!, eer! need will be met now and foreermore3 !ou will

draw, instantl!, from the abundance of the spheres, whateer !ou desire or re/uire3 for

what !ou need is alread! on !our pathwa!$

* woman suddenl! had the reali6ation: "The 9ord is m! Shepherd, . shall neer want$"

She seemed to be touchin her inisible suppl!, she felt outside of Time and Space, she

no loner relied on the e8ternal$

Her first demonstration was a small, but necessar! one$ She needed at once, some larepaperclips, but had no time to o to a stationer4s to bu! them$

.n loo#in for somethin else, she opened a littleused chest, and in it, she found, about ado6en lare paperclips$ She felt that the law was wor#in, and ae than#s3 then some

needed mone! appeared, thins lare and small came her wa!$

Since then she has relied upon the statement: "The 9ord is m! Shepherd, . shall neerwant$"

+e used to hear people sa!, ". do not thin# it is riht to as# 7od for mone! or thins$"

The! did not reali6e that this Creatie -rinciple is within each man$%The 0ather

within$ True Spiritualit! is proin 7od as !our suppl!, dail!%not ;ust once in a while$

&esus Christ #new this law, for whateer He desired or re/uired, appeared immediatel!

on His pathwa!, the loaes and fishes and mone! from the fish4s mouth$

+ith this reali6ation, all hoardin and sain would disappear$

This does not mean that !ou should not hae a bi ban# account, and inestments, but itdoes mean that !ou should not depend upon them, for if !ou had a loss in one direction,

!ou would hae a ain in another$

*lwa!s "!our barns would be full and !our cup flow oer$"

2ow, how does one ma#e this contact with his inisible suppl! 1! ta#in a statement of

Truth which clic#s and ies him reali6ation$


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This is not open to a chosen few, "+hosoeer calleth on the name of the 9ord shall be

deliered$" The 9ord is !our shepherd and m! shepherd and eer!bod!4s shepherd$

7od is the Supreme .ntellience deoted to suppl!in man4s need3 the e8planation is, that

man is 7od in action$ &esus Christ said, ". and the 0ather are one$

+e miht paraphrase the statement and sa!, . and the reat Creatie -rinciple of the

Unierse, are one and the same$

=an onl! lac#s when he loses his contact with this Creatie -rinciple, which must be

full! trusted, for it is -ure .ntellience and #nows the wa! of 0ulfillment$

The reasonin mind and personal will, cause a short circuit$

"Trust in me and . will brin it to pass$"

=ost people are filled with apprehension and dread, when there is nothin to clin to on

the e8ternal$

* woman came to a practitioner and said, ".4m onl! a poor little woman with no one but

7od bac# of me$" The practitioner said,%">ou need not worr! if !ou hae 7od bac# of!ou," for "all that the


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.t is a ood thin to see the dawn once in a while, to conince !ou how unfailin it is$ .t

reminds me of an e8perience of seeral !ears ao$

. had a friend who lied in 1roo#l!n near -rospect -ar#$ She li#ed to do unusual thins

and said to me: "Come to isit me and we4ll et up earl! and see the sunrise in -rospect

-ar#$"

*t first . refused, and then came the hunch that it would be an interestin e8perience$

.t was in the summer$ +e ot up about four o4cloc#,%m! friend, her little dauhter and

m!self$ .t was pitch dar#, but we sallied forth down the street, to the entrance of the -ar#$

Some policemen e!ed us curiousl!, but m! friend said to them with dinit!, "+e areoin to see the sunrise3" and it seemed to satisf! them$ +e wal#ed throuh the -ar# to

the beautiful rosearden$

* faint pin# strea# appeared in the East, then suddenl!, we heard a most tremendousuproar$ +e were near the Loo and all the animals were reetin the dawn$

The lions and tiers roared, the h!enas lauhed, there were shrie#s and howls: eer!

animal had somethin to sa!, for a new da! was at hand$

.t was indeed, most inspirin$ The liht slanted throuh the trees3 eer!thin had an

unearthl! aspect$

Then, as it rew lihter, our shadows were in front instead of behind us$ The dawn of anew da!5

This is the wonderful dawn which comes to each one of us, after some dar#ness$

>our dawn of Success, Happiness and *bundance is sure to come$

Eer! da! is important, for we read in the wonderful Sans#rit poem, "9oo# well,

therefore, to this da!, such is the salutation of the dawn$"

This da! the 9ord is !our Shepherd5 This da!, !ou shall not want3 as !ou and this reatCreatie -rinciple are one and the same$

The FGth -salm is also a -salm of securit!$ .t starts with a blessin for the 9ord, ". willbless the 9ord at all times: His praise shall continuall! be in m! mouth$"

"The! that see# the 9ord shall not want an! ood thin$" See#in the 9ord means thatman must ma#e the first moe$ "Draw near to me and . will draw near to thee, saith the

9ord$"

>ou see# the 9ord b! ma#in !our affirmation, e8pectin and preparin for !our ood$


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.f !ou as# for success and prepare for failure, !ou will receie the thin !ou hae

prepared for$

. tell in m! boo#, "The 7ame of 9ife and How to -la! .t," of a man who as#ed me to

spea# the word that all his debts be wiped out$

*fter the treatment, he said, "2ow .4m thin#in what .4ll sa! to the people when . haen4t

the mone! to pa! them$" * treatment won4t help !ou if !ou haen4t faith in it, for faithand e8pectanc! impress the subconscious mind with the picture of fulfillment$

.n the (Frd -salm we read, "He restoreth m! soul$" >our soul is !our subconscious mind

and must be restored with the riht ideas$

+hateer !ou feel deepl! is impressed upon the subconscious, and manifests in !our

affairs$

.f !ou are coninced that !ou are a failure, !ou will be a failure, until !ou impress the

subconscious with the coniction !ou are a success$

This is done b! ma#in an affirmation which "clic#s$"

* friend in a meetin said that . had ien her the statement as she was leain the room

%"The round !ou are on is harest round$" Thins with her, had been er! dull3 but

this statement clic#ed$

"Harest 7round, Harest 7round," ran in her ears$ 7ood thins immediatel!

commenced to come to her, and happ! surprises$

The reason it is necessar! to ma#e an affirmation is because repetition impresses the

subconscious$ >ou cannot control !our thouhts at first, but !ou can control !our words,

and &esus Christ said: "1! !our words !ou are ;ustified and b! !our words !ou arecondemned$"

Eer! da!, choose the riht words3 the riht thouhts5

The .main facult! is the creatie facult!: "Out of the imainations of the heart come

the issues of life$"

+e hae all a ban# we can draw upon, the 1an# of the .maination$

9et us imaine ourseles rich, well and happ!: imaine all our affairs in diine order3 butleae the wa! of fulfillment to .nfinite .ntellience$

"He has weapons !e #now not of," He has channels which will surprise !ou$


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One of the most important passaes in the (Frd -salm is%"Thou preparest a table before

me in the presence of mine enemies$"

This means that een in the presence of the enem! situation, brouht on b! !our doubts,

fears or resentments, a wa! out is prepared for !ou$

The 9ord is m! Shepherd3 . shall neer want$

9OO< +.TH +O2DER". will remember the wor#s of the 9ord3 surel! . will remember th! wonders of old$"%

-salms KK:AA

The words wonder and wonderful are used man! times in the 1ible$ .n the dictionar! the

word wonder is defined as, "a cause for surprise, astonishment, a miracle, a marel$"

Ouspens#!, in his boo#, "Tertium Oranum," calls the Gth dimensional world, the "+orld

of the +ondrous$" He has fiured out mathematicall!, that there is a realm where all

conditions are perfect$ &esus Christ called it the


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*t noon the phone ran, and the proposition was put to me aain$ This time . rasped it: .

did indeed, loo# with wonder for . neer e8pected the opportunit! to come to me aain$

* friend in one of m! meetins said the other da!, that this statement had brouht her

wonderful results$ .t fills the consciousness with happ! e8pectanc!$

Children are filled with happ! e8pectanc! until rownup people, and unhapp!

e8periences brin them out of the world of the wondrous5

9et us loo# bac# and remember some of the loom! ideas which were ien us: "Eat the

spec#led apples first$" "Don4t e8pect too much, then !ou won4t be disappointed$" ">ou

can4t hae eer!thin in this life$" "Childhood is !our happiest time$" "2o one #nows

what the future will brin$" +hat a start in life5

These are some of the impressions . pic#ed up in earl! childhood$

*t the ae of si8 . had a reat sense of responsibilit!$ .nstead of loo#in with wonder atthat which was before me, . loo#ed with fear and suspicion$ . feel much !ouner now

than . did when . was si8$

. hae an earl! photoraph ta#en about that time, raspin a flower, but with a careworn

and hopeless e8pression$

. had left the world of the wondrous behind me5 . was now liin in the world of realities,

as m! elders told me, and it was far from wondrous$

.t is a reat priilee for children to lie in this ae, when the! are tauht Truth from their

birth$ Een if the! are not tauht actual metaph!sics, the ethers are filled with ;o!ous

e8pectanc!$

>ou ma! become a Shirle! Temple or a 0redd! 1artholomew or a reat pianist at the ae

of si8, and o on a concert tour$

+e are all now, bac# in the world of the wondrous, where an!thin can happen oer

niht, for when miracles do come, the! come /uic#l!5

So let us become =iracle Conscious: prepare for miracles, e8pect miracles, and we are

then initin them into our lies$

=a!be !ou need a financial miracle5 There is a suppl! for eer! demand$ Throuh actie

faith, the word, and intuition, we release this inisible suppl!$

. will ie an e8ample: One of m! students found herself almost without funds, she

needed one thousand dollars, and she had had plent! of mone! at one time and beautiful

possessions, but had nothin left but an ermine wrap$ 2o fur dealer would ie her much

for it$


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. spo#e the word that it would be sold to the riht person for the riht price, or that the

suppl! would come in some other wa!$ .t was necessar! that the mone! manifest at once,it was no time to worr! or reason$

She was on the street ma#in her affirmations$ .t was a storm! da!%She said to herself,".4m oin to show actie faith in m! inisible suppl! b! ta#in a ta8i cab:" it was a er!

stron hunch$ *s she ot out of the ta8i, at her destination, a woman stood waitin to et

in$

.t was an old friend: a er! er! #ind friend$ .t was the first time in her life she had eer

ta#en a ta8i, but her Rolls Ro!ce was out of commission that afternoon$

The! tal#ed, and m! friend told her about the ermine wrap3 "+h!," her friend said, ".

will ie !ou a thousand dollars for it$" *nd that afternoon she had the che/ue$

7od4s wa!s are inenious, His methods are sure$

* student wrote me the other da!, that she was usin that statement%7od4s wa!s areinenious, His methods are sure$ * series of une8pected contacts brouht about a

situation she had been desirin$ She loo#ed with wonder at the wor#in of the law$

Our demonstrations usuall! come within a "split second$" *ll is timed with ama6in

accurac! in Diine =ind$

=! student left the ta8i, ;ust as her friend stopped to enter3 a second later, she would haehailed another ta8i$

=an4s part is to be wide awa#e to his leads and hunches3 for on the maic path of.ntuition is all that he desires or re/uires$

.n =oulton4s =odern Reader4s 1ible, the boo# of -salms is reconi6ed as the perfectionof l!ric poetr!$

"The musical meditation which is the essence of l!rics can find no hiher field than the

deout spirit which at once raises itself to the serice of 7od, and oerflows on thearious sides of actie and contemplatie life$"

The -salms are also human documents, and . hae selected the KKth -salm because ities the picture of a man in despair, but as he contemplates the wonders of 7od, faith

and assurance are restored to him$

". cried unto 7od with m! oice, een unto 7od with m! oice3 and He ae ear unto

me$

.n the da! of m! trouble . souht the 9ord: m! soul refused to be comforted$


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+ill the 9ord cast off foreer and will he be faourable no more

Hath 7od forotten to be racious hath he in aner shut up his tender mercies

*nd . said, This is m! infirmit!: but . will remember the !ears of the riht hand of the=ost Hih$

. will remember the wor#s of the 9ord3 surel! . will remember th! wonders of old$

. will meditate also of all th! wor#, and tal# of th! doins$

Th! wa!, O 7od, is in the sanctuar!: who is so reat a 7od as our 7od5

Thou art the 7od that doest wonders$

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed th! people$"

This is a picture of what the aerae Truth student oes throuh, when confronted with aproblem3 he is assailed b! thouhts of doubt, fear and despair$

Then some statement of Truth will flash into his consciousness%"7od4s wa!s areinenious, His methods are sure5" He remembers other difficulties which hae been

oercome, his confidence in 7od returns$ He thin#s, "what 7od has done before, He will

do for me and more5"

. was tal#in to a friend not lon ao who said: ". would be prett! dumb if . didn4t beliee

7od could sole m! problem$ So man! times before, wonderful thins hae come to me,

. #now the! will come aain5"

So the summin up of the KKth -salm is, "+hat 7od has done before, He now does for

me and more5"

.t is a ood thin to sa! when !ou thin# of !our past success, happiness or wealth: all loss

comes from !our own ain imainins, fear of loss crept into !our consciousness, !ou

carried burdens and fouht battles, !ou reasoned instead of stic#in to the maic path ofintuition$

1ut in the twin#lin of an e!e, all will be restored to !ou%for as the! sa! in the East%"+hat *llah has ien, cannot be diminished$"

2ow to o bac# to the child4s state of consciousness, !ou should be filled with wonder,but be careful not to lie in !our past childhood$


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. #now people who can onl! thin# about their happ! childhood da!s: the! remember what

the! wore5 2o s#ies hae since been so blue, or rass so reen$ The! therefore miss the

opportunities of the wonderful now$

. will tell an amusin stor! of a friend who lied in a town when she was er! !oun,

then moed awa! to another cit!$ She alwa!s loo#ed bac# to the house the! first lied in3to her it was an enchanted palace: lare, spacious and lamorous$

=an! !ears after, when she had rown up, she had an opportunit! of isitin this house$She was disillusioned: she found it small, stuff! and ul!$ Her idea of beaut! had entirel!

chaned, for in the front !ard was an iron do$

.f !ou went bac# to !our past, it would not be the same$ So in this friend4s famil!, the!called liin in the past, "irondoin$"

Her sister told me a stor! of some "irondoin" she had done$ +hen she was about

si8teen, she met abroad, a er! dashin and romantic !oun man, an artist$ This romancedidn4t last lon, but she tal#ed about it a lot to the man she afterwards married$

>ears rolled b!, the dashin and romantic !oun man, had become a well#nown artist3

and came to this countr! to hae an e8hibition of his pictures$ =! friend was filled with

e8citement, and hunted him up to renew their friendship$ She went to his e8hibition, andin wal#ed a portl! business man%no trace was left of the dashin romantic !outh5 +hen

she told her husband, all he said was, "irondoin$"

Remember, now is the appointed time5 Toda! is the da!5 *nd !our ood can happen oerniht$

9oo# with wonder at that which is before !ou5

+e are filled with diine e8pectanc!: ". will restore to !ou the !ears which the locusts

hae eaten5"

2ow let each one thin# of the ood which seems so difficult to attain3 it ma! be health,

wealth, happiness or perfect selfe8pression$

Do not thin# how !our ood can be accomplished, ;ust ie than#s that !ou hae alread!

receied on the inisible plane, "therefore the steps leadin up to it are secured also$"

1e wide awa#e to !our intuitie leads, and suddenl!, !ou find !ourself in !our -romised

9and$

". loo# with wonder at that which is before me$"


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C*TCH U- +.TH >OUR 7OOD

"*nd it shall come to pass, that before the! call, . will answer: and while the! are !et

spea#in, . will hear$" %.saiah '@:(G

Catch up with !our ood5 This is a new wa! of sa!in, "1efore the! call, . will answer$"

>our ood precedes !ou3 it ets there before !ou do$ 1ut how to catch up with !our

ood 0or !ou must hae ears that hear, and e!es that see, or it will escape !ou$

Some people neer catch up with their ood in life3 the! will sa!, "=! life has alwa!s

been one of hardship, no ood luc# eer comes to me$" The! are the people who hae

been asleep to their opportunities3 or throuh la6iness, haen4t cauht up with their ood$

* woman told a roup of friends that she had not eaten for three da!s$ The! dashed about

as#in people to ie her wor#3 but she refused it$ She e8plained that she neer ot upuntil twele o4cloc#, she li#ed to lie in bed and read maa6ines$

She ;ust wanted people to support her while she read "oue" and "Harper4s 1a6aar$" +emust be careful not to slip into la6! states of mind$ Ta#e the affirmation, . am wide

awa#e to m! ood, . neer miss a tric#$ =ost people are onl! half awa#e to their ood$

* student said to me, ".f . don4t follow m! hunches, . alwa!s et into a ;am$"

. will tell the stor! of a woman, one of m! students, who followed her intuitie lead,

which brouht ama6in results$

She had been as#ed to isit friends in a nearb! town$ She had er! little mone!$ +hen

she arried at her destination, she found the house loc#ed up, the! had one awa!: shewas filled with despair, then commenced to pra!: she said, ".nfinite .ntellience, ie me

a definite lead, let me #now ;ust what to do5"

The name of a certain hotel flashed into her consciousness%it persisted%the nameseemed to stand out in bi letters$

She had ;ust enouh mone! to et bac# to 2ew >or# and the hotel$ *s she was about toenter, an old friend suddenl! appeared, who reeted her warml!3 and whom she hadn4t

seen for !ears$

She e8plained that she was liin at the hotel but was oin awa! for seeral months, and

added, "+h! don4t !ou lie in m! suite while . am awa!:%it won4t cost !ou a cent$"


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=! friend accepted ratefull!, and loo#ed with ama6ement on the wor#in of Spiritual

law$

She had cauht up with her ood b! followin intuition$

*ll oin forward comes from desire$ Science toda!, is oin bac# to 9amarc# and his"dint%of wishin" theor!$ He claims that birds do not fl! because the! hae wins, but

the! hae wins because the! wanted to fl!3 result of the "-ush of the emotional wish$"

Thin# of the irresistible power of thouht with clear ision$ =an! people are in a fo

most of the time, ma#in wron decisions and oin the wron wa!$

Durin the Christmas rush, m! maid said to a saleswoman at one of the bi shops, ".suppose this is !our busiest da!$" She replied, "Oh no5 the da! after Christmas is our

busiest da!, when people brin most of the thins bac#$"

Hundreds of people choosin the wron ifts because the! were not listenin to theirintuitie leads$

2o matter what !ou are doin, as# for uidance$ .t saes time and ener! and often a

lifetime of miser!$

*ll sufferin comes from the iolation of intuition$ Unless intuition builds the house, the!

labor in ain who build it$

7et the habit of hunchin, then !ou will alwa!s be on the maic path$

"*nd it shall come to pass, that before the! call, . will answer: and while the! are !et

spea#in, . will hear$"

+or#in with spiritual law, we are brinin to pass that which alread! is$ .n the

Uniersal =ind it is there as an idea, but is cr!stalli6ed on the e8ternal, b! a sinceredesire$

The idea of a bird was a perfect picture in diine mind3 the fish cauht the idea, and

wished themseles into birds$

*re !our desires brinin !ou wins +e should all be brinin some seeminl!

impossible thin to pass$

One of m! affirmations is, "The une8pected happens, m! seeminl! impossible ood

now comes to pass$"

Do not manif! obstacles, manif! the 9ord%that means, manif! 7od4s power$


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The aerae person will dwell on all the obstacles and hindrances which are there to

preent his ood comin to pass$

>ou "combine with what !ou notice," so if !ou ie obstacles and hindrances !our

undiided attention, the! row worse and worse$

7ie 7od !our undiided attention$ ou will

then lead a maic life, for in the diine desin, all conditions are permanentl! perfect$


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-eople def! the diine desin when the! are asleep to their ood$

-erhaps the woman who li#ed to lie in bed most of the da!, and read maa6ines, should

be writin for maa6ines, but her habits of la6iness dulled all desire to o forward$

The fishes who desired wins, were alert and alie, the! did not spend their da!s on the

bed of the ocean, readin "oue" and "Harper4s 1a6aar$"

*wa#e thou that sleepeth and catch up with !our ood5

"Call on me and . will answer thee, and show thee reat and miht! thins, which thou

#nowest not$"

. now catch up with m! ood, for before . called . was answered$

R.ERS .2 THE DESERT"1ehold, . will do a new thin: now it shall sprin forth3 shall !e not #now it . will een

ma#e a wa! in the wilderness, and riers in the desert$"%.saiah GF:AI$

.n this GFrd chapter of .saiah, are m

the secret door of success

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