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 ====== The Inner Life ======
 == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1938 ==
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+==== THE DIVINE IMAGE ====
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+IF THE Disciple wishes to do God’s Will on earth even as it is done in heaven, he must first free the world by the re-newing of his thought of it.
+The outer world and its consciousness, at present, dominates man’s thinking and his actions because man loves the world and thinks first of the things of the world. But God has said:—“Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me.”
+Each individual is a center of consciousness of the One Mind, moved upon from within by the One Life. Out from this center motivated by this Life has come into every human mind, a mental image or picture of God, as revealed by very God Himself, to the extent that each human mind has unfolded to receive it and understand it. This God Image revealed to each of us is our God Ideal that we consciously or unconsciously are seeking to outmanifest. It is our Divine Goal.
+Let us ask ourselves these questions:—Do we keep this IMAGE uppermost in our consciousness? Do we keep it clear, above the worldly images of Priest, Minister, Teacher or Master such as God has used to reveal or confirm great Truths to us? Or have we adulterated the Divine Image and molded its form into that of some Teacher or Master we have known and followed, and are we holding that in our consciousness instead of the Divine Image? Which do we love and worship most, of which do we think most? The Divine Image revealed unto us by very God out from the center of our consciousness? Or the outer form of Priest, Minister, Teacher or Master?
+If the latter be true, thou shalt again be disappointed. But if the former be true, then thou hast held close to thine heart the Divine Image or Likeness of God that He Himself hath revealed unto thee. Thou hast loved and worshipped it above all things of this world, above all manifest forms; such forms as only the human mind that is separate in consciousness from its God, can see. Thou art indeed worshipping thy God in Spirit and in Truth—the God of Gods and the King of Kings.
+So thy human mind will become stilled to all thoughts of the world, it will hear that still small voice from within the Divine Image saying: “Blessed art thou MY Child, MY Disciple. Thou hast at last, Come unto ME. Now I can reveal MY True Self unto thee and teach thee the Way of MY Life on earth as that Way is in Heaven. Now thou mayest come to know ME as I AM and know the Reality of the world, that ye have loved and worshipped and lived in, in the past. I AM the Spirit and the Life within and back of the world of form.
+“The fruition of the seed I have planted within thy consciousness and shown thee is the Christ. As thou dost turn to, love and worship Him, thou shalt come to know ME as I AM, formless and eternal. Thou shalt come to know that I AM without beginning and without end. I ALONE AM. I know no one religion, creed or philosophy, for I AM the Spirit that motivates all.
+“I have no special Priest, Minister, Teacher or Master, but I AM the Spirit of Truth within each, using all forms through which to confirm to thy human mind a Truth I had already revealed unto thee from within if thou wouldst only listen, wait upon and abide in ME. I AM Impersonal, and use all avenues to express MYSELF on earth that I may reveal to thee the folly of worshipping false Gods so that thou shalt turn unto ME and at last come safely home to that Promised Land, even the Kingdom of MY Spirit, MY Life, MY Love, MY Consciousness, and KNOW ME as—I AM THAT I AM. —W. G. A.
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+=== MAN’S DESTINY ===
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+LORD, I believe that man is no helpless thing that like a bird in spring comes fluttering to the light of life, and out into the darkness of long death. The breath of God is in him, and his age-long strife with evil has a meaning and an end. Though twilight dim his vision be, yet he can see Thy truth, and in the cool of evening Thou, his friend, dost walk with him and talk (did not the Word take flesh) of the great destiny that awaits him and his race, in worlds that are to be. —Studdert Kennedy.
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+=== ANNOUNCEMENTS ===
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+WE ARE offering a limited number of copies of a STUDENTS DICTIONARY, now out of print at $1 a copy postpaid. This book is a well-prepared Glossary of extensively used Metaphysical, Philosophical and Occult terms with an Astrological Supplement. A valuable addition to the library of every student.
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+MANY inquiries come to us from Students and Friends asking how best they may help humanity during this period of transition. Our answers vary widely according to the way in which the question is asked, and according to what the questioner is prepared to do. But we consider that all interested can spread the truths of the Impersonal Teachings on which our Work is founded and which, when lived and practiced, ultimates in each one finding the Christ within.
+Some of our friends order regularly from us quantity lots of the low priced edition of THE WAY OUT and THE WAY BEYOND, and of Meditation Cards for distribution. Particulars of these will be found on the advertisement pages preceding the Editorial in this issue.
+We also supply circulars descriptive of our Work to those who can make use of them. These cover the aims of the Work of the Sun Center: a list of our publications, and an announcement of our steadily growing Correspondence Course Department.
+But we believe that a wider circulation of the INNER LIFE MAGAZINE would bring to many the understanding they need at this time. If any of our friends care to help financially in such a distribution we have certain channels through which the Magazine can be distributed free. These include its presentation to Public Libraries and various Institutions as well as to individuals.
+We ourselves are ready to cooperate in any way, and we offer a subscription to the INNER LIFE MAGAZINE free to anyone sending in five new subscriptions, or to advance, by two months, the date of the expiration of a present subscription on receiving the name of one new subscriber.
+We hope to receive a warm response to one or other of these ideas.
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