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+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== The Substance of Things Hoped For ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 45 | SEPTEMBER 1932 ==
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+<WRAP justify>
 IN THE August Paper, entitled “Prove Me Now,” we said the Lord, “were shown you some glorious truths: one especially, that by assuming your real nature as a Son of God divine activities would naturally follow. We are hoping that many of you are beginning to know and to assume your divine powers and possibilities.
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 But we said at the beginning that we would test and help you build up your faith, and we will now try to help you prove the Lord, that you may see how He pours upon those who truly love and trust Him the blessings promised.
+We have said much and have impressed it upon you in many ways about letting go and giving yourself in perfect trust to God. Some of you have had many wonderful evidences of His loving care, and are amazed at how, with no work for months and no actual income, you have always been provided for and seemingly you are better off and happier than when you had plenty of money but did not have the trust and your present faith and strength and sustain you. Such have had very real proof that God is your support, your supply, your sufficiency in all things.
+But such think truly that it is not His will or purpose that they remain long in such condition. They gladly remain, however, until they have learned all the lessons to be gained therefrom, knowing when their faith and trust have become perfect and fully established they will automatically rise out of such condition or limited consciousness into their true place in the Kingdom; such faith and trust having become the knowing of their Higher Selves that all the Father hath is theirs, and that He and they are One. And such knowing more than anything else helps to bring about the Divine Union that awaits every disciple of Christ.
+Not all of you have attained to such faith in God’s love and care as yet, and it is you whom we would help, by giving you opportunities to test and build up the faith needed. For many of you are beginning to realize, from what has been shown, the truth of Jesus’ saying, that if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing will be impossible to you.
+WHAT is that desperate problem you are now facing, which must be met and handled, or dire consequences will follow?
+Is it a mortgage that must be met, a payment to be made, something to be accomplished by a given date, that is your limited consciousness seems impossible of realization? What is to be done?
+First you must get quiet, must retire into the Silence of your soul, leaving that limited consciousness altogether in the outer where it belongs. Command powerfully the forces of your mind to “Be still, and know, I am God,” and enter into the small quiet. Then wait until there is perfect stillness.
+When all is at peace within and nothing from without is in evidence, turn your thought to your problem, but unconcernedly and impersonally. Then wait, with your thought thus focused upon it, and see what comes. Be patient. Let nothing disturb you. Just wait.
+Soon may come a definite impression or suggestion from within, indicating a new mode of action, something you had not thought of before. You may then make a silent query, such as, “Father is this what Thou desirest me to do?”
+The chances are you will feel a strong affirmative response from within. If not, wait for another impression, and even ask, “Father, show me what is Thy will and purpose for me.” And then wait calmly and confidently for a reply. Which may come as a strong impression or suggestion that you will feel is His reply.
+Or soon after turning your thought to your problem, definite words may push forth from within, such as,
+“Why do you worry? Am I not here? Do I not supply Father, not know your need? Am I not able to supply your every need—I who brought you to this place,
+to this seemingly desperate situation, simply to show you the futility of seeking outer help, and to cause you entirely to seek Me, to look for Me and My help, and then to bring you humbly and trustingly to Me, that I can prove to you My Love and My Power, and that I am an ever-present help in time of trouble?”
+In both of such cases, you should immediately say, “Father, I thank Thee, and accept this proof of Thy Voice. I put myself wholly in Thy hands, and will follow faithfully Thy desires. I know that if I do my part, Thou wilt do Thine. I ask humbly that Thou wilt give me the faith and the strength of purpose to do whatever I am shown.”
+Then go about your business calmly and happily, for there will come with this experience a peace and a confidence that will be truly uplifting. This attitude of mind you must hold continually, despite what appears in the outer or what others say.
+If there is a date on which must be accomplished what is needed, let that not concern you. For with the Father there is not, and every good and needed thing is ever available and always present in the invisible Kingdom of God’s Mind. All you need to see is that it is His own already accomplished, knowing it will appear in the outer before the time needed.
+It may not appear until the last day, nay, the last hour, or even moment; but always it will appear on time, if your faith is great enough.
+Study over the foregoing carefully, until you see how, by doing exactly as is shown you build up a quality of faith that is invincible, and which must be your faith, before you can work in full confidence with the Father’s will and purpose for you. Think of what that means for when you can do this, and of the blessings that must follow.
+And now read slowly the next article, meditating on each sentence until you see how wonderfully it confirms the main truths in what is stated above.
+(From “The Spirit Speaks”)
+</WRAP>
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+<WRAP centeralign>
+====SIMPLICITY====
+</WRAP>
+<WRAP justify>
+THOU shalt preach the Name of Jesus Christ ONLY. Enter not into the maze of sophistry or thou wilt find thou canst not extricate thyself therefrom. The Lord Jesus the Beginning and End of all things.
+Feed thy brother with Divine Simplicity, so shalt thou bring him nearer unto Me. Say not unto him, “Lo! There are seven wonders.” Rather say unto him, “The Lord is here and Heaven is within thee.”
+Cling to the rock that is higher than thee—the Everlasting Foundation of Knowledge. Trouble not, God has solved the problems of Eternity.
+Why questionest thou all these things? The Father giveth the Light as thou art able to receive it. Ye are the Children of the Kingdom. Is not that sufficient for thee? The Father asketh of thee the faith which is born of the Kingdom of Heaven.
+Thou canst safely leave the evolving of the Eternal in the hands of Him who is the Eternal One. The imagination of man’s mind is unto Him extreme foolishness.
+All that thou hast known, all that thou hast believed, shall pass away before the wondrous surprise of immortal consciousness which awaits thee.
+Empty thyselves; loosen thy hold upon the landmark that thou hast known. Cling to the Cross of Christ ONLY. The knowledge which thou hast has been of darkness; thou canst not conceive the Light which shall illumine thy Spiritual Being when thou hast entered more fully into the Mind of Christ.
+THE Spirit of the Lord is not found in the byways of diverse creeds and earthly theories.
+Knowledge is not happiness, and Science is but one kind of ignorance which mortals exchange for another kind of ignorance.
+The Tree of Knowledge is not the Tree of Life. Philosophy, Science, the Wells of Wonder, and the Springs of Wisdom are of no avail to man, but shall be scorched of annihilation by the fiery blast of Spirit which hath illimitable domination over all.
+Knowledge cannot design Me. Love painteth the inexpressible beauty of My Immortal Image with the colors which are likest unto the hues of Heaven.
+Make not My Image according unto thine own construing, for I say unto thee: Thou art blind, thou art deaf, thou art slow of understanding.
+The Lord is very present with thee. He holdeth His Court among the simple-hearted in His Kingdom of Heaven. The entrance is nigh unto him who accepteth the simplicity of the Lord.
+Be as a child in the Land of Marvel: sweet unto God is the wonder of the innocent.
+Seek simplicity, and it shall be given unto you to find the Kingdom of Heaven.
+GOD, the Father worketh many marvels, inexplicable to His children.
+Give up that to which thou clingest; it holdeth thee back from the Cross of God.
+The Holy One hath His Pavilion among the Infinite Splendours, while Thou art very simple in His sight upon the earth, an infant as it were in the Spirit.
+Thou canst not see, thou dost not know what are His thoughts. Yet He asketh thee to come unto Him, to dwell with Him, to be unto Him as His child in the wondrous habitation of His Glorious Universe. The unsearchable glories that are His, the work of His own Creation shall be thine also; because He is thy Father.
+The Spirit of God shall breathe through the Universe and thine eyes shall behold the Incarnation of the Christ! Behold the Form of the Radiant One is present with thee!
+Let thy works be simple and let thy speech be OF THE SPIRIT ONLY, that thou mayest build upon rock.
+Christ hath an Immortal Defender, His name is JESUS CHRIST. He hath simplified the mighty Truths of Eternity, and prepared the way for the innocent in Spirit. He knoweth His own, He carrieth the Lambs in His Bosom. Divine Love brighteth and glorifieth the hearts of those who follow on in confidence and faith.
+</WRAP>
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+<WRAP centeralign>
+====IMPORTANT====
+</WRAP>
+<WRAP justify>
+MOST of those receiving this Paper have been in this Work now nearly four years.
+You have come a long journey with us, although not all have accompanied us every step of the way. Some have loitered along the road, enticed perhaps by more alluring paths and wandering in them for awhile; or the travelling has been too strenuous or difficult and they could not keep up; but all such have tried to follow as best they could, receiving the teaching each month and striving to comprehend the hidden truths therein, but failing to make the headway others have made who kept strictly upon the Impersonal Path, and who were determined to live the teachings.
+The time has come when it is necessary to know all those who have traveled with us all the way, who have earnestly striven to prove the teachings, and who thereby have found the Kingdom and are now more or less living in and working from Its Consciousness.
+You should all understand what we mean by having found the Kingdom. But we are going to be more explicit, and to ask you the following questions, which for a very important reason we wish everyone reading them to answer as fully and sincerely as possible, if you kindly will:
+. Are you sure you have found and are now being taught by the Comforter, your Christ Self? Explain why you are sure.
+. Are you looking to Him as your supreme Teacher and Authority, and depending on no one else? What comes to you as a result?
+. Are you able to command your human mind to “Be still, and know, I AM, God,” and then know that you are one with
+ I AM? Who commands, and that you and God are One? How can you prove this?
+. Are you sure you have found the Kingdom, and can you abide in it for any length of time? What does the Kingdom mean to you when you are in it? In consciousness?
+. Can you truly see Christ, the Higher Self, and Good or God, in everyone and in every thing and condition around you? What is this “seeing” doing to and for you?
+. Have you had any inner experiences—dreams or visions—in which you were with others robed in white? In them did you see the Lord Jesus? Describe such experiences and what they meant to you at the time.
+. Describe just what this Work means to you, what it has done for you, and what you deem it to be.
+Because these are very vital questions concerning your soul’s welfare, we suggest that you ask your own Higher Self to guide you in the answering of them. Study each question carefully until you get its full meaning, and then wait for the inner leading before you write down your reply.
+Write the answers to each question separately, numbering each as listed, and use a separate sheet of paper for these answers, dating the head of the sheet, and signing your name and address below. Try to get it to us as soon as you can.
+Please do not expect an early acknowledgement of your response, for there will be too many to answer in the coming month. Either a letter will follow before or with the October Paper, or in it there may be a further communication regarding this request.
+From this you will see that we have approached a new stage of the Work, and we wish everyone possible to be prepared for it.
+</WRAP>
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+[[Sun Papers]]