The Inner Life

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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WHEN STUDENTS are drawn to the Sun Center work, it is due to their own response to the spiritual power and love flowing out from and through that Center and during their contact through the study and Course, they become a part of an invisible Communion of Souls through which flows a most vital, if unseen, power. They become a part of a definite body of consciousness. Naturally, the effect of this varies in every case, but if you ponder this fact, you will realize that until a student has attained the Christ Consciousness and has, to a very great extent, subordinated their outer personality in actual fact to the Presence and Will of this greater Consciousness, it would be impossible for them to be used as a means of the communication of that consciousness to others.

We appreciate greatly your enthusiasm and shall rejoice when the way opens up to you to work through the circle into which your own Spirit has placed you for its own good purpose. You say a close association with friends and relatives is discordant and boring. If you have really gained the clear grasp of the teachings that is indicated by the fine answers you have sent in to the Lessons, you must realize that we create our own world and that what appears to us therein is what we, ourselves, have outmanifested in thought. This being so, you have a golden opportunity to recreate your own circumstances and see that you live with God’s children expressing His wonderful attributes. Then you will find that your work lies at your own door. The student has no more precious gift than the enthusiasm and burning desire that you are experiencing. But even that must be dedicated and subordinated to the Will of the Loving One within. In relation to this fact and to the science of manifestation, think this out and see in what way this deep desire you have may be harnessed to practical use.

We do not now say more about this because we are anxious that you should realize for yourself just how to use this power. We are happy to say that we are conscious of great growth in your understanding and that your deep sincerity and love are clear indications of the valuable servant you will one day become. At this moment it is a question of bringing the different parts of your composite nature into a right relation, the one to the other. A mind like yours is very apt to seize on the power and ideas flowing from within and insist that they be used in a certain way. It is a very hard lesson to learn to say Thy Will be done, particularly when one feels one knows exactly how the Will of God should be put into action.

Please allow what we have said, as it were, to germinate in your consciousness. Do not think it out with the outer mind. “Wait on the Lord to show you what He wishes you to do and be, because ‘ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.’”

I FINISHED the temporary work a week ago and am now looking for something else to do, trusting it will be permanent this time. Will you please know, for me, that my right position will come to me quickly?

We note what you say about your work and would add that we too hope it will be permanent, if it is God’s will for you. Try to realize that these temporary jobs may be more of a blessing for you considered from a soul standpoint than some work which you would feel secure in. In other words, you are probably receiving more beneficial sound experience from what you are going through than if you had a complete and secure berth. Remember this—the “corn grows at night in the darkness.” It seems that we advance spiritually, when things are not so well with us, considered from a material viewpoint.

However, hold to the thought that God’s will for you is a permanent position and that He knows exactly when to supply this to you. We are praying with you and for you, and beholding you ever illumined, and blessed by the Light, Love and Life of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ.

WE THANK you for your letter and are glad to hear that you have come in touch with the IMPERSONAL LIFE and find it so interesting and encouraging. It was written in 1913 by a student of Occultism and Mysticism who wishes to remain anonymous due to the nature of the Message.

He felt it should go forth as he states in the preface, viz: as a Message from the Spirit within each reader, the Real You, the Impersonal Self. The writer had spent a lifetime of study in many schools of thought and in the teaching of this book, as throughout his other writings, he has given the simplest and most direct method whereby the student may contact the Christ within and so become imbued with the Spirit of the indwelling Christ. As you know, this is what the many different systems of Occult teaching claim to do sooner or later, and the Writer of the IMPERSONAL LIFE has done a great service to mankind in giving so simple a method.