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-====== The Inner Life 1937 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1937 ==
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+==== THE INNER ROOM ====
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+CONTAINING quotations from our replies to those writing us for help in their Spiritual problems.
+Each day at 12 o’clock noon, we take the names of those asking for such help in the Silence of the Spirit, and “Speak the Word” for them. Many hundreds have testified to receiving the blessings of such ministry.
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+=== THE LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING ===
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+YOU have every right to expect and claim the good things of life, for as a child of God, everything He has is yours by divine right, and would be given you, if the channel of your mind were always kept open so that you could receive it.
+This Work is to teach men the truth and how to apply the law. One of the important laws is that of Giving and Receiving; and for such as you who hesitate and fear to give, it is the most important one, for until you learn to work with it, as shown in the enclosed pamphlet, your Good cannot flow to you.
+This work and all Spiritual Work, including all Churches, are supported by the voluntary contributions of those who come to them for spiritual help. All such seekers therefore should be made aware of the law of spiritual giving as a part of their spiritual instruction. Anyone like you who fears to give, because of a feeling of lack, and thereby objects to it and then seeks to find fault with the givers of spiritual help, claiming they are not fulfilling the law by expecting support, is but trying to excuse himself to his own conscience, for he is not doing his part in return for the help he asked for and has received. We naturally expect support from those who receive the Lessons, because it is in fulfillment of the law. We do our part in teaching it—the law then requires the student to do his part. If he fails to do his part, he will but suffer the consequences of the law, which works with all such like you by his getting no real benefit from such help, because of his not applying it, and his failing to give back love, appreciation and substantial evidence of gratitude, even if only a dime (if that is all he could give) instead of criticism and excuses.
+However, it is perfectly plain that not until you free your mind of all the negative thoughts and the critical attitude you are holding, so evident in your letter, it will do you no good to have any more Lessons, as those thoughts and this attitude will prevent your getting any benefit from their great truths, because you cannot perceive their inner and true meaning.
+We hope, dear friend, you will read this letter several times, and try to get all the good there is in it for you; for as you asked for it, we have tried to show you some of the plain truths it is most apparent you need to know.
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+=== WINNING BACK A LOST HUSBAND ===
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+WE WANT to help in your problem and this is what comes to us: instead of doing as you have been doing, forcing your husband on your husband so that he feels the pressure of your desire to have him back, truly place him altogether in the Father’s hands in a simple, childlike, perfect love and trust, knowing that He knows best what is good for both you and him and will take care of everything.
+If you can bring your mind to such a love and trust and will thereby let go and release him to God, wholly at peace in your heart in the knowing that God does know best, you may be sure that the best will follow.
+Now here is something else. See if you can get this. All that exists in your outer world is what you now see and believe is so in your consciousness. This being so, just look at that thought-picture of your husband, of your present condition of mind, and of all that you have been doing, and see how things in the outer could not help but be as they seem to be to you.
+If you really want to change what is now in the outer, you must begin definitely and positively to change your picture of husband as shown you above, also the condition of your own life; you must release him and turn him wholly over to God, Who will then release you likewise, and will put into your mind the thoughts He wants you to think and thereby to bring forth into manifestation.
+To prove this, know that husband is a soul like you, that as a soul he lives in the inner realms of consciousness called the soul realm or mental world. Whenever you think of him, his soul immediately presents itself before you—in your consciousness. Knowing this, you can talk to him as if he were actually present, and his soul will hear.
+Now, his soul is not the outer man with that stubborn mind of his. If his soul loves you, and you think it does, then by talking to his soul and explaining the whole truth, asking his forgiveness and promising to do what the Father has shown you to do, and truly expressing what is in your soul, not what is in your selfish mind,—the Father in him will cause his soul to influence his mind that husband will be compelled to do the right thing, which is what you want him to do.
+This must be done by you wholly impersonally, however, as one soul talking to another soul, not as one personality with its personal loves and desires wanting her own; but in a selfless desire to do only what God wants her to do and what she knows would be best for both.
+Think this over, dear friend, carefully and prayerfully, and then do what you are led to do by your loving Father, and everything will come out just right.
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