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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-special mission of The Impersonal Work, we will try to make
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1936 ==
-this very clear at this time.
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-It is only too true that one can enter and work from the soul
-consciousness without ever yet having found the Christ within,
-but knowing Love, and without its influence operating in one’s
-life. This can be accomplished wholly by mental effort, as you
-must have noticed in the instructions given. In fact, self mastery
-can be accomplished entirely by mental means; witness the won-
-derful training and discipline of the mind and body attained by
-Yogis and Magicians in the Orient.
-Likewise in the West here have been remarkable evidences of
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-mental power attained by New Thought and Christian Science
+special mission of The Impersonal Work, we will try to make this very clear at this time.
-students both in healing and in material demonstrations; and
-many have learned that by using I AM affirmations, when they
-actually believe what they affirm, it brings things to pass. Which
-of course, is according to the law—“Whatever one thinks and
-holds in the consciousness as being so (or believes) outmanifests
-in one’s body or affairs.”
-What we are trying to show is that in such use of the Law
+It is only too true that one can enter and work from the soul consciousness without ever yet having found the Christ within, but knowing Love, and without its influence operating in one’s life. This can be accomplished wholly by mental effort, as you must have noticed in the instructions given. In fact, self mastery can be accomplished entirely by mental means; witness the wonderful training and discipline of the mind and body attained by Yogis and Magicians in the Orient.
-there is nothing Spiritual brought into play, despite what some
-would have you believe. Of course the exercise of mental power
-is “God in action,” if one realizes that there is only One Mind
-and God is All in all, and all power is the “Energy of God in
-action.” But when such power is used for self-development, or
-for the benefit of self in any way, and not in conscious service of
-God, it is not Spiritual and is purely selfish, although it is natural
-and is a part of the growth and development of the soul and its
-instrument the mind.
-Our purpose in mentioning this is to show clearly the distinc-
+Likewise in the West here have been remarkable evidences of mental power attained by New Thought and Christian Science students both in healing and in material demonstrations; and many have learned that by using I AM affirmations, when they actually believe what they affirm, it brings things to pass. Which of course, is according to the law—“Whatever one thinks and holds in the consciousness as being so (or believes) outmanifests in one’s body or affairs.”
-tion between mental and Spiritual things, so as not to allow your-
-self to be deceived into believing that certain uses of mental power
+What we are trying to show is that in such use of the Law there is nothing Spiritual brought into play, despite what some would have you believe. Of course the exercise of mental power is “God in action,” if one realizes that there is only One Mind and God is All in all, and all power is the “Energy of God in action.” But when such power is used for self-development, or for the benefit of self in any way, and not in conscious service of God, it is not Spiritual and is purely selfish, although it is natural and is a part of the growth and development of the soul and its instrument the mind.
-are Spiritual, especially when self is back of your efforts and you
-are satisfying some desire of self.
+Our purpose in mentioning this is to show clearly the distinction between mental and Spiritual things, so as not to allow yourself to be deceived into believing that certain uses of mental power are Spiritual, especially when self is back of your efforts and you are satisfying some desire of self.
+We urge you to reread The Impersonal Life and The Teacher and be reminded therein of how much self enters into almost all of one’s thoughts and activities, and how one has to be constantly on the alert not to feed and encourage its desires.
+HOW MAY one surely know when self is not in evidence in one’s thoughts and actions? In only one way. Love for
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-We urge you to reread The Impersonal Life and The Teacher
-and be reminded therein of how much self enters into almost all of
-one’s thoughts and activities, and how one has to be constantly
-on the alert not to feed and encourage its desires.
-HOW MAY one surely know when self is not in evidence in
-one’s thoughts and actions? In only one way. Love for
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