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-=====Man, the Image and Likeness of God=====
+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== Man, The Image and Likeness of God ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 40 | APRIL 1932 ==
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 In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God created man in His own image and likeness. Pythagoras tells us that the Universal Creator formed two things in His own image—the universe with its system of suns, moons and stars, called the macrocosm; and man, in whose nature is duplicated the whole universe, called the microcosm. We would add a third, by stating that our planet earth and all planets are formed in the image and likeness of God.
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 Man is a center of the Universal Consciousness, which consciousness is naturally affected and influenced by its reactions to the thought and emotional forces constantly flowing into it from without. The consciousness
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+of most men is wide open, because they have not trained their minds to choose what they want in it and to refuse entrance to all distasteful, negative and harmful forces. They have not yet learned that it is such that not only bring all inharmonies into their lives, but they either clog up or close entirely the avenues connecting their minds with the Universal Consciousness, which is always waiting to pour into them the riches of Divine Mind.
+Man being a center of Universal Consciousness should then always be connected with it, should be a part of it, all that is in it being over available for his use. This is wholly true of the image and likeness man within, and when the outer consciousness is turned within and is unconcerned and undisturbed by what appears or what comes from without; it naturally is always open to and is constantly receiving from within the blessings of Divine Mind; and consequently the outer life is expressing and in fact is patterned after the divine life manifesting within in the Kingdom of Divine Mind.
+This means that all the forces coming from within the Universal Consciousness are good, harmonious and beneficent. Then all that is different or contrary to them must come from without,—from men’s human minds that think themselves separate and apart from the Divine Mind. Such “separate” thinking naturally creates all kinds of seemingly opposing forces, but which in reality are the forces of the Law seeking to press man’s consciousness back again into harmony and union with Divine Mind.
+Man not realizing this however resists and fights unceasingly against these forces, seeing only evil and malevolence in them, and thereby causing continual inharmony to manifest in his body and life. He has not yet learned to cease resisting, to let go and turn within, and thereby to connect up his mind once more with the Divine Mind; and thus permit the Law to press his consciousness back into the harmony from which it had strayed, when that which is manifesting may likewise be released and can also come back into harmony.
+This should enable you to trace out the causes of the inharmonious forces now operating in your body and outer life. These causes, remember, are resident in your consciousness, and your consciousness consists of the consciousness of every cell of your body, and likewise of your entire mental atmosphere. Not until you remove the causes and thus cleanse the consciousness of mind, body and thought-life, can harmony manifest. We hope that is now plain.
+Realizing now that all is consciousness and that all things that appear exist only as thought pictures in your “separate” mind, we will relate your mind and its consciousness first with your so-called physical body.
+Remember that all being consciousness, all things take place and all forces operate only in consciousness. Then within your mind we must look for the causes and for the actual forces and things now manifesting in your body and life.
+For instance, you think you have a body, but if your will analyze the thought picture in your mind of that body, you will find it traces back to your idea of being a “self” and separate from other selves; when in reality you have no actual body and you are not separate, for you are a Spiritual being, a center of consciousness in Divine Mind. Just as all the ideas in your consciousness are centers of, within, and a part of your mind, so are
 …you an idea, a center of consciousness of Divine Mind.
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 Because of lack of room in this issue we will continue this subject in the next Paper, aiming to round it out more fully and then to extend the relation and comparison of man’s consciousness to that of the Earth and our Solar System; thus showing how man is actually God, and God is truly expressing Himself identically in the Solar System, in the Earth, and in man; but in each only as much of Himself as the consciousness of each is unfolded enough to accept and permit; yet all the time all of the consciousness they have being His consciousness.
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-A VISION OF THE NEW DAY
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+====A VISION OF THE NEW DAY====
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 Many have reported visions telling of the doom awaiting the Old Order and its institutions, but we have had none sent us that contain as definite a promise of what will follow the passing of the Old Order as the one described in the letter below:
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 In this vision we are shown what will naturally follow in such a world. It is a beautiful confirmation, dear ones, of the Master’s promise explained in the last two Papers, and as reported in Mat. 24 and 25, and assures us that the time is soon here when “That Day” we all realize. May we all watch carefully and pray that as many be saved as possible.
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-EASTER
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+====EASTER====
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 We are sorry that not all will receive this Paper before Easter, but conditions were such that it could not be gotten out earlier.
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 And knowing this will not your Word of Truth drive out all error in consciousness and destroy the manifest lie? Try it and see! The Word of Truth spoken from a consciousness that KNOWS is all powerful.
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+[[Sun Papers]]